verb

• (transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
  "Even though Jack is a novice, he manages his team with great success."
• (transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
  "The government managed the inflation very poorly."
• (transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
  "It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects."
• (intransitive) To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty. [with infinitive]
  "He managed to climb the tower."

noun

• (now rare) The act of managing or controlling something.
  "the winged God himſelfe Came riding on a Lion rauenous, Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe […]."
• (equestrianism) Manège.
  "You must draw [the horse] in his career with his manage, and turn, doing the corvetto, leaping &c.."