manageable, adj. governable, tractable, controllable; corrigible, impressionable, susceptible, persua-sible; receptive, amenable, teachable, trainable, educate, tamable; flexible, pliant, compliant; namby-pamby, weak, insipid, wishy-washy; pusillanimous, timid, meek, without a mind of one's own; docile, gentle, yielding, submissive, willing.
management, n. 1. regulation, administration, superintendence, supervision; direction, control, government, command, leadership, oversight; stewardship, care, charge, conduct, guidance, treatment.
2. skill, executive ability, finesse, address, dispatch; adroitness, deftness, capability, mother wit.
3. executives, bosses, owners, controllers, directors, SI. high muckety-mucks or high muck-a-mucks; top men, SI. top dogs, SI. top bananas.
manager, n. 1. helmsman, pilot, fugleman, gerent, leader; organizer, master, governor; mayor, Brit, bailiff, town or city manager, town planner; adviser, mastermind, Rasputin, power behind the throne; guide, cicerone, dragoman; proctor.
2. administrator, executive, superintendent, supervisor; boss, chief, overseer, foreman, director, straw boss; skipper, kingpin, Inf. old man.
3. controller, comptroller, treasurer, husband; steward, major-domo, seneschal; housekeeper; factor, agent.
mandate, n. 1. fiat, decree, edict, ukase, bull, firman; order, dictate, precept, command, charge, injunction, writ, ruling; instruction, prescript; authorization, authority, commission, warrant; behest, bidding, ultimatum; ordinance, statute, act, regulation, requirement.
2. colony, protectorate, dependency, mandated territory, occupied territory; province, state.
mandatory, n. obligatory, required, requisite, essential, necessary, needed; compulsory, imperative, binding, preceptive; ordered, demanded, commanded, bidden, compelled, coerced; exigent, urgent, pressing.
man-eater, n. 1. cannibal, anthropophagite; ogre, ogress, monster, fiend, brute, ghoul, barbarian; Polyphemus, Thyestes; vampire, bloodsucker, Count Drac-ula.
2. tiger, lion, shark, great white shark.
man-eating, adj. cannibalistic, flesh-eating, anthro-pophagical, Thyestian, polyphagian; bestial, fiendish, monstrous, ghoulish, ogreish, barbarous; bloodsucking, vampirish, bloodthirsty; non-vegetarian, carnivorous.
manes, n. Roman Religion, shades, souls of the dead, spirits, ghosts, phantoms, specters, shadows; All Rom. Religion, lemures, lares, penates.
maneuver, n. 1. move, gambit, stroke, coup, step, measure, proceeding; tactic, intrigue, machination, contrivance, manipulation; stratagem, ruse, artifice, device, wile, subterfuge, shift, red herring; ploy, dodge, sleight, feint, game; procedure, scheme, plot, plan, design.
2. maneuvers exercises, operations, war games, actions, movements; logistics, war plans, tactics, strategy, kriegspiel.
-v. 3. manipulate, handle, manage, finesse; conduct, work, operate, run, engineer; steer, drive, be in the driver's seat, be at the reins, take the wheel; pilot, direct, lead, turn, jockey; navigate, guide, captain, cox, take the helm.
4. scheme, intrigue, plot, plan, contrive, engineer, Inf. angle, pull the strings, have [s.o.] on the string;