managing

The word “managing” has 3 syllables: man-ag-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈmæn.ə.dʒɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for managing?

In the thesaurus, “managing” has 143 synonyms and 51 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for managing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for managing

  • addressing
  • administering
  • administrating
  • admonishing
  • advising
  • affording
  • ascendant
  • ascendent
  • bringing off
  • carrying off
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • cheapness
  • cheeseparing
  • chief
  • closeness
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • codirecting
  • comanaging
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • conducting
  • conservation
  • conserving
  • contriving
  • controlling
  • coping
  • directing
  • doing
  • dominant
  • economizing
  • economy
  • eking out
  • engineering
  • executing
  • faring
  • fending for oneself
  • fielding
  • finessing
  • first
  • foremost
  • frugality
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting off
  • getting on
  • governing
  • grand
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • handling
  • having a grip on
  • head
  • high
  • high-level
  • husbanding
  • husbandry
  • inspecting
  • jockeying
  • keeping
  • lasting
  • lead
  • leading
  • main
  • major
  • making do
  • making ends meet
  • making out
  • making shift
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • micromanaging
  • minding
  • miserliness
  • negotiating
  • niggardliness
  • officiating
  • operating
  • organizing
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • paramount
  • parsimony
  • penny-pinching
  • penuriousness
  • piloting
  • pinching
  • playing
  • predominant
  • predominate
  • preeminent
  • premier
  • presiding
  • primary
  • prime
  • principal
  • protecting
  • providence
  • pulling
  • regnant
  • regulating
  • reigning
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • saving
  • scrimping
  • scrounging
  • senior
  • shifting
  • skimping
  • sovereign
  • sovran
  • squeezing
  • stage-managing
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stinginess
  • supereminent
  • superintending
  • superior
  • supervising
  • supervisory
  • supreme
  • surviving
  • swinging
  • taking
  • tending
  • thrift
  • tightfistedness
  • tightness
  • top
  • topmost
  • treating
  • upmost
  • upper
  • uppermost
  • watching
  • watching over
  • wresting
  • wringing

Antonyms for managing

Meanings of managing

  • verb
    1. To direct or be in charge of.
    2. To handle or control (a situation, job).
    3. To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
    4. To succeed at an attempt.
    5. To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
    6. To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
    7. To treat with care; to husband.
    8. To bring about; to contrive.
  • noun
    1. Management.

Example Sentences

  • She excels at managing tight deadlines and complex tasks.
  • He’s responsible for managing the company’s finances.
  • Managing a team remotely can be challenging at times.
  • They are managing several construction sites simultaneously.
  • Managing stress is key to maintaining good health.

On this page you'll find 194 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to managing, such as: addressing, administering, administrating, admonishing, advising, affording, ancillary.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

babysitting

  • administrating
  • attending
  • babying
  • babyminding
  • chaperoning
  • conducting
  • controlling
  • day care
  • directing
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  • governance
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  • shepherding
  • shielding
  • stewarding
  • superintending
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  • tending
  • watching

hacking

  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • acquiescing
  • addressing
  • allowing
  • bearing
  • biding
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • capitulating
  • carrying off
  • carrying out
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
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  • countenancing
  • directing
  • enduring
  • engineering
  • fielding
  • finessing
  • getting off
  • going
  • guiding
  • handling
  • having a grip on
  • jockeying
  • living with
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • meeting
  • micromanaging
  • negotiating
  • permitting
  • playing
  • pocketing
  • pulling
  • regulating
  • respecting
  • running
  • standing
  • standing for
  • steering
  • sticking out
  • stomaching
  • suffering
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • swinging
  • taking
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • treating
  • wearing

keeping

  • abidance
  • abiding by
  • accession
  • accomplishing
  • achieving
  • acquiescence
  • adherence
  • administering
  • administrating
  • agreement
  • answering
  • arresting
  • attendance
  • attention
  • authority
  • averting
  • balance
  • battling
  • bearing
  • blessing
  • blocking
  • boasting
  • bridling
  • bringing about
  • bringing off
  • buffering
  • bulwarking
  • care
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • celebrating
  • cellaring
  • charge
  • checking
  • cherishing
  • claiming
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • codirecting
  • collaring
  • comanaging
  • command
  • commandeering
  • commanding
  • commemorating
  • committing
  • compassing
  • completing
  • compliance
  • concluding
  • condition
  • conducting
  • confiscation
  • conformance
  • conformity
  • consecrating
  • conserving
  • constraining
  • consummating
  • containing
  • contending
  • control
  • controlling
  • covering
  • curbing
  • custodianship
  • custody
  • defending
  • deference
  • detaining
  • directing
  • discharging
  • dominion
  • effecting
  • enjoying
  • enjoyment
  • estate
  • executing
  • fencing
  • fending
  • feting
  • fettle
  • fighting
  • filing
  • filling
  • finalizing
  • financing
  • finishing
  • footing
  • forfending
  • form
  • fulfilling
  • funding
  • gagging
  • garaging
  • governing
  • governorship
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • hampering
  • handcuffing
  • handling
  • hands
  • hangaring
  • hanging on to
  • harboring
  • harmony
  • having
  • health
  • heed
  • hindering
  • holding
  • holding back
  • holding on to
  • honor
  • honoring
  • housing
  • hugging
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • interrupting
  • kilter
  • lauding
  • leading
  • maintaining
  • making
  • making good
  • making good on
  • management
  • managing
  • mastery
  • measuring
  • meeting
  • memorializing
  • micromanaging
  • mincing
  • minding
  • muffling
  • muzzling
  • nick
  • notice
  • obedience
  • observance
  • observation
  • observing
  • obstructing
  • operating
  • opposing
  • order
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • ownership
  • owning
  • packing
  • palisading
  • pass
  • patronizing
  • perfecting
  • performing
  • phase
  • picketing
  • picture
  • piloting
  • pocketing
  • possessing
  • possession
  • posture
  • power
  • practice
  • practise
  • praising
  • preservation
  • preserving
  • preventing
  • procurement
  • proprietorship
  • protecting
  • protection
  • pulling in
  • putting up
  • rank
  • redeeming
  • regard
  • regulating
  • remembering
  • repair
  • repositing
  • repossession
  • repressing
  • reserving
  • resisting
  • respect
  • restraining
  • retaining
  • retention
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • safekeeping
  • sanctifying
  • satisfying
  • saving
  • scene
  • screening
  • securing
  • setting up
  • shape
  • shelving
  • shielding
  • silencing
  • sinking
  • situation
  • smothering
  • solemnizing
  • sponsoring
  • squelching
  • stage
  • stage-managing
  • staking
  • standing
  • standing up for
  • status
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stifling
  • stopping
  • storing
  • stowing
  • strangling
  • submission
  • superintendence
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • supporting
  • suppressing
  • surrender
  • swallowing
  • taking care of
  • taming
  • tending
  • treasuring
  • trim
  • trust
  • underwriting
  • uniformity
  • upholding
  • walling
  • ward
  • warding
  • warehousing
  • warring
  • watching
  • watching over
  • withholding
  • withstanding

keeping up

  • abiding
  • balance
  • bearing up
  • biding
  • carrying on
  • carrying through
  • compete
  • conserving
  • contend
  • continue
  • continuing
  • coping
  • curing
  • defending
  • drawing out
  • emulate
  • enduring
  • faring
  • fixing
  • getting along
  • getting by
  • getting on
  • go on
  • going
  • guarding
  • hanging in
  • hanging on
  • healing
  • hold on
  • holding on
  • holding out
  • holding up
  • husbanding
  • keep pace
  • keep step
  • lasting
  • leftover
  • lingering
  • maintaining
  • making out
  • managing
  • match
  • mending
  • pace
  • patching
  • perduring
  • persevere
  • persevering
  • persisting
  • preserve
  • preserving
  • prevailing
  • protecting
  • rebuilding
  • reconstructing
  • rehabilitating
  • rejuvenating
  • remaining
  • remedying
  • residual
  • restoring
  • rival
  • run with
  • running on
  • safeguarding
  • saving
  • screening
  • servicing
  • shielding
  • staying
  • sticking around
  • stretching
  • supporting
  • surviving
  • sustaining
  • tarrying
  • vie

machinating

  • arranging
  • brewing
  • captaining
  • colluding
  • commanding
  • compassing
  • concerting
  • concluding
  • concocting
  • conducting
  • conniving
  • conspiring
  • contriving
  • counterplotting
  • designing
  • devising
  • directing
  • engineering
  • finagling
  • finessing
  • framing
  • gerrymandering
  • hammering out
  • handling
  • hatching
  • intriguing
  • jockeying
  • laying out
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • mapping
  • masterminding
  • negotiating
  • planning
  • plotting
  • putting up
  • quarterbacking
  • running
  • scheming
  • shaping
  • wangling
  • working out

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