manage
/ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success."
- "Interlaken East station is jointly owned with the standard gauge Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway from Bern and Thun and the Swiss Federal Railways metre-gauge Brünig line from Lucerne, but is managed and staffed by the Bernese Oberland group."
- "The government managed the inflation very poorly."
- "It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects."
- "The moſt vnruly, and the boldeſt boy, That euer warlike weapons menaged […]."
- "He managed to climb the tower."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der. Proto-Italic *manus Latin manus Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Latin -izāre Vulgar Latin *manizāre Old Italian maneggiareder.? Old French manegebor. Middle English *manage English manage From Early Modern English manage, menage, from Middle English *manage, *menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from Old Italian maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from Vulgar Latin *manizāre (“handle”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + -izāre (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of manège. Compare typologically English handle; Russian руководи́ть (rukovodítʹ) (< рука́ (ruká)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈmæn.ɪd͡ʒ/