'Managing' definitions:
Definition of 'Managing'
From: GCIDE
- Manage \Man"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Managed; p. pr. & vb. n. Managing.] [From Manage, n.]
- 1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle. [1913 Webster]
- Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed. --Sir I. Newton. [1913 Webster]
- What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant. --Bp. Hurd. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To treat with care; to husband. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To bring about; to contrive. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'managing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
Words containing 'Managing'
- Manage,
- Manageability,
- Manageable,
- Manageableness,
- Manageably,
- Managed,
- Management,
- Manager,
- Stage manager,
- bank manager,
- baseball manager,
- city manager,
- database management,
- district manager,
- general manager,
- hotel manager,
- industrial management,
- line management,
- managed economy,
- management consultant,
- management consulting,
- management control,
- management personnel,
- managing director,
- managing editor,
- database management system,
- financial management service,
- office of management and budget,
- federal emergency management agency,
- relational database management system,
- object-oriented database management system