单词 | managed |
释义 | managedadj.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > [adjective] managed1591 1591 R. Greene Maidens Dreame xxi Men might his stable full of coursers see, Trotters whose manag'd looks would som afright. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 112 The Tennis Court, & Cavalerizzo for the menag'd horses are also observable. 1687 C. Sedley Bellamira v, in Wks. (1722) II. 163 He..rides three manag'd Horses every Morning. 1722 London Gaz. No. 6087/4 A bright dun manag'd Stone Horse..has been standing at John Hambrow's. 1785 J. Boswell Jrnl. Tour Hebrides 24 Sept. 310 Johnson: A Frenchman goes out upon a managed horse, and capers in the field. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 49 Making his managed horse keep time by bounds and curvets to the tune which he whistled. 1835 W. Beckford Recoll. Monasteries Alcobaça & Batalha 148 Bestriding a maneged horse. 1881 P. Fitzgerald World behind Scenes 79 The circus generally supplies these steeds, what old writers used to call a ‘managed’ animal, that is of the ‘manège’, being requisite. 2. Controlled, conducted, or administered. Chiefly with adverbs, as ill-managed, skilfully managed, etc.Earliest in well-managed adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [adjective] > relating to management or administration > managed conveyed?1504 managed1603 worked1862 conducted1875 run1891 1603 T. Bell Anat. Popish Tyrannie 141 The Iesuits, and seculars are vnfit men, to enioy any toleration in a well managed common weale. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Amesnagé, Managed, gouerned, ordered, settled, as a household.] 1677 J. Dryden State Innocence i. i. 5 A well-manag'd War. 1794 J. Byng Diary 25 Sept. in Torrington Diaries (1938) IV. 80 He..spoke with bitter contempt of hare hunting—; and so he well may here, managed as it is. 1794 J. Farington Diary 9 Oct. (1978) I. 253 I spoke strongly to Bulmer as to our situation and how illmanaged a work of such expence had been. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. vii. 151 It has been a very ill-managed business. View more context for this quotation 1835 C. J. Latrobe Rambler in N. Amer. I. iii. 25 The light skilfully managed wherry of the Whitehaller. 1879 H. James Daisy Miller I. ii. 66 She was a simple, easily managed person. 1909 Daily Chron. 30 Aug. 5/3 It would, of course, be a wise provision to require brewers owning ‘managed’ houses to make separate returns to the Excise officials. 1958 Times 5 June 16/6 Liberty Hall, an unhappily managed trip down memory lane. 1990 Harvard Business Rev. Mar. 224/1 Japan's managed approach is spawning a thicket of compensatory barriers in the United States. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective] methelyeOE i-meteOE methefulOE attempre1297 measurablec1330 temprea1340 temperatec1380 temperantc1384 attemperatec1386 attemperelc1386 chastea1400 mannered1435 measureda1450 moderatea1450 well-measuredc1450 attempered1474 modest1548 sober1552 measurely1570 temperable1619 contemperate1647 submissive1753 managed1770 self-contained1838 inexplosive1867 1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 17 Throughout, it was a satire, though in terms managed and decent enough, on the politicks of the former Reign. 1771 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 291 A behaviour, rather too reserved and managed for the purposes of opposition. 1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall I. x. 270 Well I can call to mind the managed air..That in a dubious balance held the mind. 1898 Academy 8 Oct. 23/1 A man of tireless energy, of managed affections. 4. Falsified, doctored. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [adjective] > defrauding or swindling cheatingc1555 sharking1608 shaving1611 rooking1631 sharping1691 black-legged1761 swindling1774 managed1810 cooked1849 bunco-steering1875 blue sky and hot air1905 blue skies1925 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 279 The mysterious and confused kind of evidence given by this paymaster and the production of those managed papers. 1963 Guardian 9 Apr. 8/3 The ‘managed news’ controversy in America. 1986 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 25 May 10/4 The Kennedy Administration, the era of such phrases as hawks and doves, managed news, Irish Mafia, [etc.]. Compounds managed bond n. a bond which is invested by a fund manager on behalf of the owner. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > bond > types of bond government securities1707 Sword-blade bond1707 long bond1720 government paper1774 indent1788 premium bond1820 active1835 preference bond1848 investment bond1853 mortgage bond1853 revenue bond1853 municipal bond1858 treasury-bond1858 sices1867 property bond1869 government1870 priority bond1884 municipal1888 income bonds1889 yearling1889 war baby1901 Liberty Bond1917 Liberty Loan1917 victory bond1917 corporate1922 performance bond1938 convertible1957 Eurobond1966 Euroconvertible1968 managed bond1972 muni1973 granny bond1976 bulldog bond1980 Euro1981 granny1981 strip1982 zero1982 1971 Investors Chron. 2 Apr. 22 (advt.) It's called the Abbey Selective Investment Bond, and it's issued and managed by Abbey Life Assurance.] 1972 Observer 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. 1993 Accountancy (BNC) Feb. 65 There is free switching between funds and to a Knight Williams managed bond should tax circumstances change. managed care n. originally U.S. any of various systems intended to provide coordinated, comprehensive health care in a (more) cost-effective way, by such methods as emphasizing primary care, enrolling patients in health maintenance organizations, controlling access to specialist and hospital treatment, etc. (frequently attributive). ΚΠ 1983 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 21 Apr. 980/2 Under prepaid managed care, the primary care physician plays a critical part. 1994 CompuServe Mag. Feb. 13/2 Discussions in health systems the world over use the words ‘managed care’, although the implementation of managed care varies from country to country. managed competition n. U.S. a strategy for reducing health-care costs by encouraging competition between providers of managed care for contracts with large employers, the government, and other groups representing large numbers of patients. ΚΠ 1988 A. Enthoven in Jrnl. Health Politics, Policy & Law 13 306 I believe it is necessary to draw a clear distinction between proposals to create a free market in health care financing and delivery..and a system of managed competition designed to guide the health care financing and delivery systems toward those goals. 1994 Denver Post 16 Jan. a14/1 Managed-competition backers take a middle ground. managed currency n. a currency system which is not tied to the gold standard or to any other currency but is regulated by the government of the country concerned. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > currency systems and policies decimal currency1824 bimetallism1876 monometallism1878 free silver1889 polymetallism1890 silverism1895 symmetallism1895 trimetallism1897 managed currency1898 single currency1900 compensated dollar1912 commodity dollar1918 soft currency1940 1898 Econ. Jrnl. 8 312 There remain the objections to a managed currency of any kind, and the objections to India attempting a gold standard. 1923 J. M. Keynes Tract 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. 1985 Investors Chron. 1–7 Nov. 86/1 The Secretary of the Treasury..has returned the notion of the managed currency to respectability. managed economy n. an economy in which the framework and general policies are regulated or controlled by the government. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > types of economic system free market1642 peasant economy1883 agriculturism1885 money economy1888 price system1889 external economy1890 peace economy1905 war economy1919 planned economy1924 market economy1929 circular economy1932 managed economy1932 mixed economy1936 market socialism1939 plural economy1939 market capitalism1949 external diseconomy1952 siege economy1962 knowledge economy1967 linear economy1968 EMU1969 wage economy1971 grey economy1977 EMS1978 enterprise culture1979 new economy1981 tiger1981 share economy1983 gig economy2009 1932 Amer. Econ. Rev. 22 403 No predictions can be made as to the final solution (managed economy or other) of the problem. 1969 Adv. Sci. 26 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. 1986 P. Hennessy Cabinet (1990) (BNC) 35 According to the radical Right, it was because free market forces had been stultified by the welfare state and the managed economy. managed fund n. Finance a unit-linked investment plan in which a client's premium is converted into a combination of fixed-interest and property investments, which may be adjusted at the discretion of the fund's managers. ΚΠ 1941 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 49 499 His research staff recomputed the index so that it would more nearly represent an ‘unmanaged’ fund.] 1969 Jrnl. Financial & Quantitative Anal. 4 464 It can be argued that an unmanaged market portfolio..is not an appropriate standard for comparison with a managed fund. 1993 Scotsman 20 Feb. 13/4 The best way to invest in a portfolio of international bonds is through a managed fund, such as a unit trust. managed trade n. international trade in which one nation imposes restrictions, such as import and export quotas and duties, on another. ΚΠ 1980 National Jrnl. (U.S.) 9 Aug. 1324/1 We are moving into an era of what British economist S. A. B. Page calls ‘managed trade’. As a matter of practical politics, governments everywhere find themselves the custodians of key industries. 1993 New Republic 2 Aug. 7/1 The administration's goal was full-fledged managed trade, a trans-Pacific affirmative action program under which Japan would vow to meet fixed trade quotas regardless of such factors as, say, the price and quality of American goods. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1591 |
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