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Meaning of managery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
countable, uncountable
Husbandry; economy; frugality.
countable, uncountable
Something requiring management; a project.
countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it.”

“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 […]”

“[…] 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 […]”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Manages Managing managing director managing editor Managing-committee Managing-director