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Meaning of managery | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Husbandry; economy; frugality.
    countable, uncountable
  3. 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.
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See also

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

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