manipulation

The word “manipulation” has 5 syllables: ma-nip-u-la-tion

It's pronounced as /məˌnɪp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for manipulation?

In the thesaurus, “manipulation” has 43 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for manipulation along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for manipulation

Meanings of manipulation

  • noun
    1. The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
    2. The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.
    3. The usage of underhanded influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome.

Example Sentences

  • The company was fined for the manipulation of financial records.
  • He used clever manipulation to influence the outcome.
  • The magician’s trick involved the manipulation of cards.
  • Political manipulation can sway voters without them realizing it.
  • The robot arm allows for precise manipulation of small objects.

On this page you'll find 43 synonyms or another words to manipulation, such as: administration, aegis, agency, care, charge, coadministration, codirection.

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

Related Words

machination

  • artifice
  • cabal
  • collusion
  • complicity
  • confederacy
  • connivance
  • conniving
  • conspiracy
  • conspiration
  • contrivance
  • counterconspiracy
  • counterplot
  • cover-up
  • design
  • device
  • dirty work
  • dodge
  • draft
  • frame-up
  • game
  • gimmick
  • ground plan
  • intrigue
  • maneuver
  • manipulation
  • monkey business
  • on the make
  • plot
  • ploy
  • practice
  • program
  • racket
  • ring
  • ruse
  • scheme
  • sellout
  • skullduggery
  • song and dance
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • subterfuge
  • system
  • trick
  • trickery

dealing

  • accomplishment
  • achievement
  • act
  • action
  • action towards
  • activity
  • administration
  • affair
  • alloting
  • allotment
  • angle
  • apportioning
  • apportionment
  • approach
  • arguing
  • assessment
  • assigning
  • attainment
  • attempt
  • auctioning
  • back-and-forth
  • bargain
  • bargaining
  • barter
  • bartering
  • behavior towards
  • bickering
  • black-marketing
  • bootlegging
  • business
  • buying
  • buying and selling
  • castling
  • chaffering
  • change
  • circulating
  • circulation
  • clashing
  • clientele
  • closeness
  • commerce
  • communication
  • communion
  • commutation
  • comparison shopping
  • conduct
  • connection
  • contract
  • conversion
  • cornering
  • correspondence
  • counterfeiting
  • countermeasure
  • countermove
  • counterstep
  • coup
  • course
  • crack
  • crime
  • custom
  • customers
  • cutting a deal
  • day-trading
  • deal
  • dealings
  • deed
  • delivery
  • dicker
  • dickering
  • diffusion
  • dispensation
  • dispersal
  • disposal
  • disposing
  • dissemination
  • dissipating
  • distributing
  • division
  • doing
  • doings
  • dole
  • economics
  • effort
  • employment
  • endeavor
  • engrossing
  • enterprise
  • essay
  • event
  • exchange
  • exchanging
  • execution
  • exertion
  • expedient
  • exploit
  • fair-trading
  • familiarity
  • feat
  • fencing
  • fighting
  • fling
  • go
  • goods
  • habit
  • haggling
  • handing out
  • handling
  • hassling
  • hawking
  • horse trade
  • horse trading
  • horse-trading
  • industry
  • initiative
  • interchange
  • intercourse
  • interdependence
  • interrelation
  • intimacy
  • investing
  • labor
  • line
  • logrolling
  • mailing
  • makeshift
  • management
  • manipulation
  • manner
  • market
  • marketing
  • means
  • measure
  • merchandising
  • merchandizing
  • merchantry
  • method
  • mode
  • modus operandi
  • monopolizing
  • moonshine
  • move
  • negotiating
  • negotiation
  • network
  • operation
  • pains
  • paltering
  • partition
  • partitioning
  • pass
  • patronage
  • peddling
  • picking up
  • piracy
  • plunder
  • poaching
  • practice
  • procedure
  • proceeding
  • process
  • processing
  • project
  • propagation
  • proposal
  • proposition
  • prorating
  • public
  • purchasing
  • quarreling
  • quarrelling
  • quibbling
  • quid pro quo
  • rationing
  • rearrangement
  • rebuying
  • reception
  • reciprocation
  • reciprocity
  • recompense
  • relations
  • relationship
  • replacement
  • requital
  • reselling
  • resort
  • resource
  • retailing
  • revision
  • rum-running
  • sales
  • scattering
  • selling
  • sharing
  • shift
  • shot
  • shuffle
  • shuffling
  • smuggling
  • soliciting
  • speculating
  • spreading
  • squabbling
  • stab
  • step
  • stopgap
  • strategy
  • stuff
  • substitution
  • success
  • supplanting
  • supplantment
  • supplying
  • swag
  • swap
  • swapping
  • switch
  • taking
  • theft
  • thing
  • tit for tat
  • trade
  • trade-off
  • trading
  • traffic
  • trafficking
  • transacting
  • transaction
  • transactions
  • transfer
  • transport
  • transportation
  • transposing
  • transposition
  • trial
  • triumph
  • trouble
  • truck
  • try
  • underselling
  • undertaking
  • usage
  • vending
  • violation
  • way
  • wetbacking
  • whack
  • wheeling and dealing
  • while
  • wholesaling
  • work
  • wrangling

handling

  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • acquiescing
  • addressing
  • administering
  • administrating
  • administration
  • aegis
  • agency
  • allowing
  • approach
  • bearing
  • biding
  • bossing
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • capitulating
  • captaining
  • care
  • carrying off
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • charge
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • coadministration
  • codirecting
  • codirection
  • comanagement
  • comanaging
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • conduct
  • conducting
  • considering
  • control
  • controlling
  • countenancing
  • custody
  • directing
  • direction
  • doing by
  • driving
  • egis
  • enduring
  • engineering
  • esteeming
  • fielding
  • finessing
  • generalship
  • getting off
  • going
  • governance
  • governing
  • government
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guidance
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • having a grip on
  • heading
  • intendance
  • jockeying
  • keeping
  • lap
  • leadership
  • leading
  • living with
  • logistics
  • machination
  • management
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • manipulation
  • meeting
  • micromanaging
  • minding
  • monitoring
  • negotiating
  • operating
  • operation
  • ordering
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • oversight
  • permitting
  • piloting
  • playing
  • plying
  • pocketing
  • presidency
  • protecting
  • protection
  • pulling
  • quarterbacking
  • rating
  • reckoning
  • regarding
  • regulating
  • regulation
  • reigning
  • respecting
  • riding herd on
  • rulership
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • safekeeping
  • serving
  • shepherding
  • showing
  • stage-managing
  • standing
  • standing for
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stewardship
  • sticking out
  • stomaching
  • styling
  • suffering
  • superintendence
  • superintendency
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • swinging
  • taking
  • tending
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • treating
  • treatment
  • trust
  • tutelage
  • using
  • viewing
  • ward
  • watching
  • watching over
  • wearing
  • wielding
  • working

design

  • accomplish
  • achieve
  • action
  • adornment
  • aim
  • allow
  • ambition
  • angle
  • animus
  • architecture
  • arrange
  • arrangement
  • artifice
  • aspiration
  • aspire
  • attempt
  • big picture
  • block out
  • blueprint
  • bourn
  • bourne
  • brainchild
  • budget
  • cabal
  • calculate
  • caparison
  • cast
  • chart
  • child
  • choreograph
  • collusion
  • comp
  • complicity
  • compose
  • composition
  • conation
  • conception
  • concert
  • confederacy
  • configuration
  • connivance
  • conniving
  • consider
  • conspiracy
  • conspiration
  • conspire
  • constellation
  • constitution
  • construct
  • construction
  • contemplate
  • contrivance
  • contrive
  • cook up
  • counterconspiracy
  • counterplan
  • counterplot
  • counterstrategy
  • cover-up
  • create
  • debate
  • decoration
  • deliberation
  • delineate
  • delineation
  • depiction
  • describe
  • desire
  • destination
  • destine
  • device
  • devise
  • diagram
  • dodge
  • doodle
  • dope out
  • draft
  • draw
  • drawing
  • dream
  • dream up
  • dummy
  • effect
  • embellishment
  • end
  • endeavor
  • enterprise
  • execute
  • fabricate
  • fashion
  • figure
  • figure on
  • form
  • format
  • formation
  • formula
  • frame
  • frame-up
  • frill
  • fulfill
  • gambit
  • game
  • game plan
  • garnish
  • get up
  • getup
  • gimmick
  • go
  • goal
  • grail
  • ground plan
  • have on
  • holy grail
  • hope
  • idea
  • ideal
  • illustration
  • intend
  • intendment
  • intent
  • intention
  • intrigue
  • invent
  • lay of the land
  • lay out
  • layout
  • look
  • machinate
  • machination
  • make
  • make up
  • makeup
  • maneuver
  • manipulation
  • map
  • mark
  • master plan
  • mean
  • meaning
  • means
  • meditate
  • method
  • mind
  • model
  • motif
  • motive
  • name of the game
  • nirvana
  • notion
  • object
  • objective
  • ordonnance
  • organization
  • organize
  • originate
  • ornament
  • outline
  • painting
  • paste-up
  • pattern
  • perform
  • perspective
  • picture
  • pitch
  • plan
  • platform
  • play
  • plot
  • point
  • policy
  • ponder
  • portrait
  • premeditate
  • prepare
  • pretension
  • procedure
  • produce
  • program
  • project
  • projet
  • proposal
  • propose
  • proposition
  • protocol
  • purport
  • purpose
  • put up
  • racket
  • recipe
  • reflection
  • ring
  • road map
  • ruse
  • scenario
  • scene
  • schema
  • scheme
  • set out
  • setup
  • shape
  • sketch
  • sketch out
  • story
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • strive
  • struggle
  • study
  • style
  • subterfuge
  • system
  • tactic
  • tailor
  • target
  • technique
  • terminus
  • theme
  • thing
  • think up
  • thinking
  • thought
  • trace
  • tracery
  • tracing
  • treatment
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trim
  • try
  • undertaking
  • view
  • volition
  • way
  • will
  • wish
  • work out

kneading

  • abating
  • abrasion
  • attrition
  • back rub
  • beating
  • boasting
  • brushing
  • caress
  • carving
  • chasing
  • chirapsia
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • coining
  • cutting
  • drawing
  • fashioning
  • forging
  • forming
  • friction
  • graving
  • grinding
  • hammering
  • hewing
  • knapping
  • manipulation
  • minting
  • modeling
  • modelling
  • molding
  • pat
  • patting
  • planishing
  • polish
  • pounding
  • rasping
  • scouring
  • scraping
  • sculpting
  • sculpturing
  • shine
  • smear
  • smoothing
  • stamping
  • stroking
  • swab
  • swipe
  • wear
  • wipe
  • working

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