manage

Other forms of manage

past tense

managed·

present participle

managing·

third person

manages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about manage

What does manage mean?

manage means "be successful; achieve a goal". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manage?

manage has 2 syllables: man-age. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmænədʒ/.

What is another word for manage?

Close synonyms include pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, deal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of manage?

The recorded antonyms are fail.

Is manage a common word?

manage is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.