Verb

(manag)

To direct or be in charge of.

To handle or control (a situation, job).

To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:

The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].

To succeed at an attempt

* , chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis

, title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}

To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.

(Shakespeare)

Verb

(negotiat)

To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.

* 1963 , , to the eight fellow clergymen who opposed the civil rights action, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Why We Can't Wait

"You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."

To arrange or settle something by mutual agreement.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe.

To succeed in coping with, or getting over something.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 29, author=Kevin Mitchell, work=the Guardian

, title= Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau , passage=Novak Djokovic earlier had negotiated his own tricky passage through the fifth day.}}

(obsolete) To transact business; to carry on trade.

(Hammond)

(obsolete) To intrigue; to scheme.

(Francis Bacon)