Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

managery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: man-agery
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Husbandry; economy; frugality.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Something requiring management; a project.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it."
"1724, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time, Volume I, Book II: The History of the Reign of King Charles II, p. 330, But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable managery in that particular drew upon them an expence of many millions […]"
"[…] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […]"

Etymology

Compare Old French menagerie, mesnagerie. See manage and compare menagerie.

Usage

Inflected Forms

manageries (plural)

Questions

What does managery mean?: Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
Where does managery come from?: Compare Old French menagerie, mesnagerie. See manage and compare menagerie.

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