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/ˈmænɪdʒəbəɫ/
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[ UK /mˈænɪdʒəbəl/ ]
[ UK /mˈænɪdʒəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- capable of being managed or controlled
- capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do
How To Use manageable In A Sentence
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- There's a level of debt in proportion to income that the world will accept as manageable, and there's a level of short-term nett borrowing that will be acceptable through a temporary period of difficulty. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
- So much for postcrisis efforts to whittle banks down to a more-manageable size. J.P. Morgan Plays a $20 Billion Hand
- It was one of these dishes that are a tasting menu in and of themselves, giving you the sensory pleasures of a voluptuous feast - only in tiny, manageable portions.
- The only requisite is manageableness of the ship herself and of the numbers she carries on board.
- They called the prospects of U.S. success in Iraq "farfetched," writing: "We are skeptical of recent press coverage portraying the conflict as increasing manageable and feel it has neglected the mounting civil, political and social unrest we see every day. CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2007
- It works well for us, at a manageable cost of about 400 a month. Times, Sunday Times
- Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad. Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- Indoors at De Montfort; outdoors in a manageable hillside parkspace and two-four tents on flat areas. All Bruced Up « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
- There is need to reduce the almost limitless possible tasks to a manageable number. MANAGING FOR RESULTS