manage
Definitions
Accounting
- verb to direct or to be in charge of something
Agriculture
- verb to organise something or control the way in which something happens
Information & Library Science
- verb to direct or take responsibility for controlling somebody or something
Medical
- verb to be able to do something, or to succeed in doing something
Politics
- verb to direct or to be in charge of a business or organisation
- verb to use money or time successfully
Sports
- verb to guide the career and control the business affairs of somebody such as a professional entertainer or athlete
Origin & History of “manage”
Etymologically, manage means ‘handle’. It comes via Italian maneggiare ‘control a horse’ from vulgar Latin *manidiare, a derivative of Latin manus ‘hand’. To begin with it was used in the context of ‘horse-training’ in English, but eventually the French form manège took over in this sense. The more general sense ‘handle, control’ is of virtually equal antiquity in English, though.
