Collocations for "manage"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "manage" in context.
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manage
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- manage [a company, the staff, your workers, a team, the firm]
- manage a [star, singer, group, performer]
- [the singer, she] is managed by her [husband, father]
- manage and [control, operate, protect, maintain, present, monitor]
- manage your [profile, account, images]
- managed to [escape, survive]
- manage to [do, get, keep, go, finish, find, make]
- can't (quite) manage to
- can't (even) manage a (simple) [smile, hello]
- do you think you can manage?
- [can't, struggles to] manage on her own
- [poorly, well, expertly] managed
'manage' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
account
- acumen
- allocation
- anyhow
- arrange
- basketball
- bookmark
- build
- cafeteria
- charity
- cluster
- cockpit
- conflict
- content
- council
- cumbersome
- difficult
- discipline
- effectively
- establish
- estate
- ever
- favorite
- fleet
- hazardous
- how
- however
- implement
- listing
- monitor
- own
- possibly
- power
- probably
- process
- project
- receiver
- record
- repository
- rigging
- risk
- separately
- shortage
- situation
- somehow
- speaking
- squeak
- staff
- store
- swelling