Crossword clues for managing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Manage \Man"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Managed; p. pr. & vb. n. Managing.] [From Manage, n.]
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To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.
Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed.
--Sir I. Newton.What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain.
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Hence, Esp.: to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.
It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
--Addison.It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant.
--Bp. Hurd. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
To treat with care; to husband.
--Dryden.-
To bring about; to contrive.
--Shak.Syn: To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.
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n. management vb. (present participle of manage English)
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Usage examples of "managing".
In his more lucid moments he was relieved at how well Alec was managing, though the fact that the boy had not yet slipped away, despite ample justification and opportunity, continued to baffle him.
Ali Ben Souq added quietly, managing with a reasonable voice to lower the hostility rising in Amir Bedawi.
The Badgeless Maces hauled back on their reins, barely managing to bring their mounts to a stop before the dragoneers.
In the bowels of the caravanserai, young ladies who a year before had been hand-weaving cloth for clothing and hand sewing same were using computers to analyze voice intercepts, running satellite communications gear and managing one of the most advanced battlefield networks to be found in the world.
Moreover, they had fixed it to stay openly with Kurman and Cleer, while James Zunick was managing a third crime in the interest of the Yellow Band.
Two weeks later, on June 5, 2003, less than a month after the Times mea culpa, the papers two highest-ranking editors, executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd, resigned.
But that amounts to containing or managing the threat, not eliminating it.
During the precipitous decline of the suckers, the grudgers have been slowly decreasing in numbers, taking a battering from the prospering cheats, but just managing to hold their own.
And he painted like a whitewasher, mixing his colours as a hodman mixes his mortar, and managing to make the clearest and brightest of them quite muddy.
Moreover, the Army had responsibilities the other services did not have, including operating the port and airfield in Kuwait and managing logistics for the entire military theater.
Times-News offices the following morning, Dake Lorin was slowly and uneasily passed up the ladder from managing editor to assistant publisher, to publisher.
The Negro must have a larger hand in managing his institutions of learning even from the lowest to the highest.
The reporter skipped over fresh molehills, stumbling once but managing to keep his feet.
She was a bit of a mumbler, managing to speak without moving her lips.
He pinched your drink and you smacked him in the mouth and he kicked you in the nadgers and you hit him in the guts and he blacked your eye and then you hit him with a table and when he came round his mates stood him beer for the evening for managing to lay nearly three punches on Sergeant Jackrum.