| caretaker | | |
| n. (person) | 1. caretaker | a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person). |
| ~ concierge | a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter. |
| ~ custodian, keeper, steward | one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals. |
| ~ sacristan, sexton | an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects. |
| ~ super, superintendent | a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector. |
| ~ verger | a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies. |
| n. (person) | 2. caretaker | an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily.; "he acted as a caretaker until a new president could be elected" |
| ~ functionary, official | a worker who holds or is invested with an office. |
| manage | | |
| v. (social) | 1. bring off, carry off, manage, negociate, pull off | be successful; achieve a goal.; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs" |
| ~ bring home the bacon, deliver the goods, succeed, come through, win | attain success or reach a desired goal.; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won" |
| v. (social) | 2. care, deal, handle, manage | be in charge of, act on, or dispose of.; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old" |
| ~ administer, administrate | work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of.; "administer a program"; "she administers the funds" |
| ~ organize, organise | cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea. |
| ~ work | cause to operate or function.; "This pilot works the controls"; "Can you work an electric drill?" |
| ~ come to grips, get to grips | deal with (a problem or a subject).; "I still have not come to grips with the death of my parents" |
| ~ dispose of | deal with or settle.; "He disposed of these cases quickly" |
| ~ take care, mind | be in charge of or deal with.; "She takes care of all the necessary arrangements" |
| ~ coordinate | bring into common action, movement, or condition.; "coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions with that of his colleagues"; "coordinate our efforts" |
| ~ juggle | deal with simultaneously.; "She had to juggle her job and her children" |
| ~ process | deal with in a routine way.; "I'll handle that one"; "process a loan"; "process the applicants" |
| ~ mismanage, misconduct, mishandle | manage badly or incompetently.; "The funds were mismanaged" |
| ~ direct | be in charge of. |
| ~ control, command | exercise authoritative control or power over.; "control the budget"; "Command the military forces" |
| ~ carry on, conduct, deal | direct the course of; manage or control.; "You cannot conduct business like this" |
| ~ touch | deal with; usually used with a form of negation.; "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling" |
| v. (social) | 3. contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage | come to terms with.; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" |
| ~ act, move | perform an action, or work out or perform (an action).; "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy bill"; "The nanny acted quickly by grabbing the toddler and covering him with a wet towel" |
| ~ extemporize, improvise | manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand.; "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks" |
| ~ fend | try to manage without help.; "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died" |
| ~ hack, cut | be able to manage or manage successfully.; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office" |
| ~ rub along, scrape along, scrape by, scratch along, squeak by, squeeze by | manage one's existence barely.; "I guess I can squeeze by on this lousy salary" |
| ~ cope with, match, meet | satisfy or fulfill.; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams" |
| v. (social) | 4. manage, oversee, superintend, supervise | watch and direct.; "Who is overseeing this project?" |
| ~ administer, administrate | work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of.; "administer a program"; "she administers the funds" |
| ~ build | order, supervise, or finance the construction of.; "The government is building new schools in this state" |
| v. (social) | 5. finagle, manage, wangle | achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods. |
| ~ achieve, attain, accomplish, reach | to gain with effort.; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" |
| v. (social) | 6. do, manage | carry on or function.; "We could do with a little more help around here" |
| v. (contact) | 7. handle, manage, wield | handle effectively.; "The burglar wielded an axe"; "The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well" |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ ply | wield vigorously.; "ply an axe" |
| ~ pump | operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal.; "pump the gas pedal" |
| ~ swing out, swing, sweep | make a big sweeping gesture or movement. |
| oversee | | |
| tend | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. be given, incline, lean, run, tend | have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ take kindly to | be willing or inclined to accept.; "He did not take kindly to my critical remarks" |
| ~ suffer | be given to.; "She suffers from a tendency to talk too much" |
| ~ gravitate | move toward.; "The conversation gravitated towards politics" |
| v. (social) | 2. tend | have care of or look after.; "She tends to the children" |
| ~ garden | work in the garden.; "My hobby is gardening" |
| ~ attend, take care, look, see | take charge of or deal with.; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business" |
| ~ shepherd | tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats. |
| v. (social) | 3. tend | manage or run.; "tend a store" |
| ~ take care, mind | be in charge of or deal with.; "She takes care of all the necessary arrangements" |
| ~ stoke | stir up or tend; of a fire. |
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