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e telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.

Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]

To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort. See how the surly Warwick mans the wall ! Shak. They man their boats, and all their young men arm. Waller.

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege. [Obs.] Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold. Bacon. Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon Wanting the manage of unruly jades. Shak. The unlucky manage of this fatal braw…

Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.

Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage artfully or fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election returns.

Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

r A. M. -- Master of the horse, the third great officer in the British court, having the management of the royal stables, etc. In ceremonial cavalcades he rides next to the sovereign. -- Master of the rolls, in England, an officer who has charge of the rolls and patents that pass the great seal, and of the records of…

One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs. Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man. Bacon.

Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison.

A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.

The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.

Disposition; distribution; management. South.

The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.

ne of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business. My other self, the partner of my life. Milton.

e public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.

The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.

The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.