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manageries

manageries is the plural of managery.

Meaning of managery

Noun

managery (countable and uncountable, plural manageries)

  1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
    • Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it.1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 11
  2. Husbandry; economy; frugality.
    • But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable managery in that particular drew upon them an expence of many millions […]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
  3. (obsolete) Something requiring management; a project.
    • […] 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 […]1742, Roger North, The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, London: John Whiston, page 182

Questions about manageries

What is manageries the plural of?
Manageries is the plural of managery.

Words near manageries in the dictionary

  1. managerialize
  2. managerialized
  3. managerializes
  4. managerializing
  5. managerially
  6. manageries
  7. managerless
  8. managerly
  9. managers
  10. managership
  11. managerships

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