Definition of "manage" []

• To direct or control the use of; handle: manage a complex machine tool. (verb-transitive)
• To exert control over: "Managing the news . . . is the oldest game in town” ( James Reston). "A major crisis to be managed loomed on the horizon” ( Time). (verb-transitive)
• To make submissive to one's authority, discipline, or persuasion. (verb-transitive)
• To direct the affairs or interests of: manage a company; an agency that manages performers. See Synonyms at conduct. (verb-transitive)
• To succeed in accomplishing or achieving, especially with difficulty; contrive or arrange: managed to get a promotion. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Someone posed a question to me about the most likely way that a plural marriage law would handle the exponential increase in relationships to manage from a legal perspective."
• "And the best they can ever manage is to lob a few dozen rockets at a Turkish military base before getting slaughtered."
• "Facebook also is removing regional networks because some of them -- such as China -- consist of millions of users, which makes them nearly impossible to manage from a privacy standpoint."