Managery
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. countable, uncountable
"Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it."
- 2 Husbandry; economy; frugality. countable, uncountable
"1724, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time, Volume I, Book II: The History of the Reign of King Charles II, p. 330, But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable managery in that particular drew upon them an expence of many millions […]"
- 3 Something requiring management; a project. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"[…] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […]"
Example
More examples"Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it."
Etymology
Compare Old French menagerie, mesnagerie. See manage and compare menagerie.
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