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unmanage

unmanage verb: to cease to manage; to relinquish ownership or control of.

Verb

unmanage (third-person singular simple present unmanages, present participle unmanaging, simple past and past participle unmanaged)

  1. (transitive) To cease to manage; to relinquish ownership or control of.
    • Since the XmDialogShell is not used here, managing and unmanaging the child of the shell will have no effect on whether the shell window itself is visible.1994, David Flanagan, Motif tools: streamlined GUI design and programming with the Xmt library
    • The web interface enables you to unmanage a chassis, and re-manage the chassis in centralized user management mode. However, unmanaging a chassis deletes all of the chassis settings […]2014, Ilya Krutov, Carl Gola, Jeff Schoby, Implementing Systems Management of IBM PureFlex System, page 143

Forms of unmanage

third-person singular presentunmanages
present participleunmanaging
past participleunmanaged
pastunmanaged

Origin of unmanage

From un- + manage.

Questions about unmanage

What does unmanage mean?
Unmanage means to cease to manage; to relinquish ownership or control of.
What part of speech is unmanage?
Unmanage is a verb.
What is the past tense of unmanage?
The past tense of unmanage is unmanaged.

Words near unmanage in the dictionary

  1. unmanacle
  2. unmanacled
  3. unmanacles
  4. unmanacling
  5. unmanagable
  6. unmanage
  7. unmanageability
  8. unmanageable
  9. unmanageableness
  10. unmanageably
  11. unmanaged

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