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manage

verb

1 she manages a staff of 80 people:

be in charge of, run, be head of, head, direct, control, preside over, lead, govern, rule, command, superintend, supervise, oversee, administer, organize, conduct, handle, take forward, guide, be at the helm of;

informal head up.

2 he's good at managing his money:

organize, take care of, administer, regulate, deal with efficiently.

▷antonyms squander.

3 how much work can you manage this week?:

accomplish, achieve, do, carry out, perform, undertake, bring about/off, effect, finish, succeed in, contrive, engineer.

4 will you be able to manage without him?:

cope, get along/on, make do, be/fare/do all right, carry on, survive, deal with the situation, scrape by/along, muddle through/along, fend for oneself, shift for oneself, make ends meet, weather the storm;

informal make out, get by, hack it.

5 she can't manage that horse:

control, handle, master, influence, manipulate;

cope with, deal with.

manage Oxford Dictionary of English