managing
present participle of
manage
Meaning of managing in English
manage
verb
uk
/ˈmæn.ɪdʒ/ us
/ˈmæn.ədʒ/manage verb (SUCCEED)
B1 [ I or T ]
[ + to infinitive ] Did you manage to get any bread?
I can't manage all this work on my own.
Don't worry about us - we'll manage!
- The car's quite full, but we could manage to squeeze another couple of people in.
- How did you manage to get such a great job?
- I don't know how actors manage to learn all those lines.
- I'm afraid I have to go out for a while - will you be able to manage on your own?
- How do you manage to work in this heat without air conditioning?
- balancing act
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- cut
- heat
- hold
- juggle
- juggling
- keep body and soul together idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- manage
- roll
- scrape through (something)
- sink or swim idiom
- stretch to something
- stride
- subsist
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
manage verb (CONTROL)
B1 [ T ]
to be responsible for controlling or organizing someone or something, especially a business or employees:
- I saw a harried-looking mother at the checkout trying to manage two small children and a mountain of shopping.
- This mousse says it's designed to make hair glossy and easier to manage.
- This is my first experience of managing other people, but I need to appear confident.
- Derek manages our Agricultural Division.
- There must be a better way to manage our household finances than this!
Phrasal verb
Examples of managing
managing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This report implied that managing the entry of a new drug was a costly exercise.
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Success in this will require appreciation of the tensions (and complementarities) in managing workers of different ages.
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They included the need for psychological support, spiritual support, assistance with activities of daily living, and assistance with managing symptoms.
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The county committees were thus left with the onerous task of managing many sequestered estates on the behalf of the state.
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This board would be the precursor to the local advisory boards that would later play a key role in managing the public grasslands.
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The result was a minimalist article that nevertheless affirmed the role of government in managing water.
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Strikes had sometimes been co-ordinate across a group of mills when policies of the managing agent had affected them in the same way.
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In particular, it focuses on the questions that the children ask during the lessons and the strategies the nurses employ in managing those questions.
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Managing for returns might not be optimal from the point of view of the sponsoring firm, as common factors drive assets and liabilities.
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Such profiling was undertaken to identify and categorize the psychological needs of the target market as part of the process of managing consumption of cigarettes.
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Given the challenges of managing heart failure, the need for improved palliative care, and skilled multidisciplinary support, a continuing education program was designed.
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The paper concludes by proposing a framework to use in managing and analysing dialogues about learning.
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This approach is focused on managing new concepts with certain verb patterns that will define their position in the ontology.
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And there already are some data suggesting that current seat-of-the-pants strategies for managing illegal residents are more costly than standard but unreimbursed treatment would be.
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Managing soils for sustainable production of food and industrial crops.
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