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managed, ppl. a.|ˈmænɪdʒd|
Also 7 mannaged, menaged, 9 (in sense 1) maneged.
[f. manage v. + -ed1.]
1. Trained to the manège. arch.
1591Greene Maidens Dreame xxi, Men might his stable full of coursers see, Trotters whose manag'd looks would som afright. 1644Evelyn Diary 27 Feb., The Tennis Court, and Cavalerizzo for the menag'd horses, are also observable. 1687Sedley Bellamira v. Wks. 1722 II. 163 He.. rides three manag'd Horses every Morning. 1722Lond. Gaz. No. 6087/4 A bright dun manag'd Stone Horse..has been standing at John Hambrow's. 1773Johnson in Boswell 24 Sept., A Frenchman goes out upon a managed horse, and capers in the field. 1816Scott Old Mort. xvi, Making his managed horse keep time by bounds and curvets to the tune which he whistled. 1835Beckford Recoll. 148 Bestriding a maneged horse.
2. Controlled, conducted, administered. Chiefly with advs., as well-managed, ill-managed. managed bond (see quot. 1972); managed currency, a currency system which is not tied to the gold standard but is regulated by the government of the country concerned; managed economy, an economy in which the framework and general policies are regulated or controlled by the government.
1611Cotgr., Amesnagé, Managed, gouerned, ordered, settled, as a household. 1923J. M. Keynes Tract on Monetary Reform 166 This is what is meant by saying that gold has ‘intrinsic value’ and is free from the dangers of a ‘managed’ currency. Ibid. 167 Gold itself has become a ‘managed’ currency. 1924W. F. Spalding Eastern Exchange Currency & Finance (ed. 4) p. v, India and one or two other Eastern nations have found defects in a ‘managed’ currency. 1929G. D. H. Cole in New Leader 8 Nov. 16/3 A plea for a ‘managed currency’..a currency that is regulated not automatically by the supply of gold, but deliberately. 1941G. N. Clark Holland & War 9 In September 1936..France and Switzerland gave up the gold standard and Holland too went over to a managed currency. 1969Adv. Sci. XXVI. 64/2 The first objective of a managed economy..was originally stability. Ibid. 66/2 In considering the problems of a managed economy it is well to begin by recognizing that management is by no means the same as control. [1971Investors Chron. 2 Apr. 22 (Advt.), It's called the Abbey Selective Investment Bond, and it's issued and managed by Abbey Life Assurance.] 1972Observer 8 Oct. 18/2 In theory a managed bond is an ideal investment. The investor buys units in a special bond fund which the managers can invest in property, shares or fixed-interest stock according to their expert appraisal of the investment scene.
†3. Falsified, ‘cooked’. Obs.
1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 279 The mysterious and confused kind of evidence given by this paymaster and the production of those managed papers.
4. Of demeanour, expressions, etc.: Nicely restrained, measured. Now rare.
In Burke's use = F. ménagé.
1770Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. 1842 I. 129 Throughout it was a satire, though in terms managed and decent enough, on the politicks of the former reign. 1771― Corr. (1844) I. 291 A behaviour, rather too reserved and managed for the purposes of opposition. 1819Crabbe T. of Hall x, Well I can call to mind the managed air..That in a dubious balance held the mind. 1898Academy 8 Oct. 23/1 A man of tireless energy, of managed affections. |