To manage, administer (government); to conduct (business, negotiations, etc.). Obsolete.

To conduct (affairs); to manage, govern.

To command (an army, etc.); to govern, rule (a country); to administer, manage (affairs, an office). Cf. guide, v. 3 4.

transitive. To act as guide to; to go with or before for the purpose of leading the way: said of persons, of God, Providence, and of impersonal…

transitive. To preside over, run, or administer the affairs of (a household or other institution).

transitive. To guide, direct, or manage (affairs, etc.). Obsolete.

To manage, rule, govern (a person); to lead, induce (to some course of action); reflexive to conduct oneself, behave. Obsolete.

transitive. Originally: to perform or execute (a task, office, etc.). Later also (now more usually): to carry out or oversee the tasks necessary…

To regulate or govern in an orderly way; to order, control, direct, manage, command. Obsolete.

To arrange, devise, manage, or order (something). Obsolete.

transitive. To rule, govern (a land, people); to administer (an estate); to act as guardian to (a child). Obsolete.

To conduct, manage, or attend to (business, affairs, etc.); to push forward or prosecute. Obsolete.

(a) to deal with: to act in regard to, administer, handle, dispose in any way of (a thing). (b) to handle effectively; to grapple with; to take…

transitive. To exert authority or control over (a person, animal, etc.); to control (a vessel or vehicle); to manage.

To deal with as an executor; to administer. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To conduct or carry out (business, a matter); to manage; to contrive to bring about, accomplish. Obsolete.

To manage with secrecy, privacy, or craft. Obsolete.

transitive. To conduct, direct, or manage (an affair).

With clause, esp. that-clause, as complement. To assert, maintain to (a person) (that he or she has done something, or is something); to charge…

To carry on and manage, to conduct as one's own (an establishment or business, a school, shop, etc.). to keep house: see house, n.1 int.phrases 4b.

transitive. To manage, run; to see to the running of; = administer, v. 1a.

transitive. To manage or conduct.

to dispose of (with indirect passive to be disposed of). To make a disposition, ordering, or arrangement of; to do what one will with; to order…

transitive. To hold, occupy, take charge or possession of (land or property); to have the tenure of; to administer, control, or manage. Obsolete.

transitive. To conduct or manage (an incident, situation, event, etc.). Obsolete (archaic in later use).

transitive. To take charge of, control, or direct (a household, institution, business, state, etc.). Also intransitive.

transitive. To conduct a negotiation or negotiations about (a matter, affair, etc.).

To direct, manage, carry on (a transaction, process, business, institution, legal case, etc.).

transitive. To engage in or conduct (work, a business, etc.); to participate in (esp. a regular or habitual activity).

transitive. To control, manage.

transitive. Formerly: †to manage (land) carefully or economically; (also) to manage (an estate) on behalf of another person, esp. a minor (obsolete)…

transitive. To manage or administer (an institution, system, etc.); to direct or be responsible for the operation of; to run. Also: to manage…

transitive. Originally U.S. To manage, to direct the operation of (a business, enterprise, etc.); to carry out or through, apply (a principle, a…

Originally U.S. transitive. To direct, conduct, organize, manage (a business, etc.). Also more generally: to bring organization to bear upon…

transitive. To arrange with a view to stage effect. Also absol.

transitive. Chiefly U.S. regional (western) To manage or direct closely; to control, to supervise, to run.