Maintain vs. Manage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Maintain and Manage
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Maintain
Cause or enable (a condition or situation) to continue
The need to maintain close links between industry and schools
Manage
Be in charge of (a business, organization, or undertaking); run
Their elder son managed the farm
Maintain
Provide with necessities for life or existence
The allowance covers the basic costs of maintaining a child
Manage
Succeed in surviving or in achieving something despite difficult circumstances; cope
Catherine managed on five hours' sleep a night
Maintain
State something strongly to be the case; assert
He has always maintained his innocence
He had persistently maintained that he would not stand against his old friend
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Manage
To have charge of; direct or administer
Manage a company.
Manage a portfolio of assets.
Maintain
To keep up or carry on; continue
Maintain good relations.
Manage
To exert control over; regulate or limit toward a desired end
Manage the news to minimize political repercussions.
Managed smokestack emissions.
Maintain
To keep in an existing state; preserve or retain
Maintain one's composure.
Manage
To direct or supervise (employees or other staff)
She manages 20 people in the department.
Maintain
To keep in a condition of good repair or efficiency
Maintain two cars.
Manage
To act as the manager of (a performer, for example).
Maintain
To provide for; support
Maintain a family.
Manage
To succeed in accomplishing, achieving, or producing, especially with difficulty
Managed to get a promotion.
Managed a polite goodbye.
Maintain
To keep in existence; sustain
Enough food to maintain life.
Manage
To succeed in coping or dealing with
A drug that improves patients' ability to manage their disease.
Maintain
To defend or hold against criticism or attack
Maintained his stand on taxes.
Manage
To direct or conduct business affairs.
Maintain
To declare to be true; affirm
Maintained her innocence.
Manage
To continue to get along; carry on; cope
Learning how to manage on my own.
Maintain
To adhere or conform to; keep
Maintain a busy schedule.
Manage
(transitive) To direct or be in charge of.
Maintain
To support (someone), to back up or assist (someone) in an action.
Manage
(transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).
Maintain
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
Manage
(transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
Maintain
To declare or affirm (a clause) to be true; to assert.
Manage
(intransitive) To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
He managed to climb the tower.
Maintain
To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.
Manage
(ambitransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
It's a tough job, but I'll manage.
Maintain
To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.
God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.
Manage
To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.
"That's nice, dear!", she managed.
Maintain
To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.
Maintain talk with the duke.
Manage
To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
Maintain
To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.
Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life.
What maintains one vice would bring up two children.
Manage
(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
Maintain
To affirm; to support or defend by argument.
It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.
Manage
(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
Maintain
Keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,
Keep clean
Hold in place
She always held herself as a lady
The students keep me on my toes
Manage
The act of managing or controlling something.
Maintain
Keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction;
We preserve these archeological findings
The old lady could not keep up the building
Children must be taught to conserve our national heritage
The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts
Manage
(horseriding) Manège.
Maintain
Supply with necessities and support;
She alone sustained her family
The money will sustain our good cause
There's little to earn and many to keep
Manage
The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
Down, down I come; like glistering PhaëthonWanting the manage of unruly jades.
The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.
Maintain
State categorically
Manage
To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.
Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed.
What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain.
Maintain
Of power or authority
Manage
To guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.
It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant.
Maintain
Maintain for use and service;
I keep a car in the countryside
She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips
Manage
To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
Maintain
Maintain by writing regular records;
Keep a diary
Maintain a record
Keep notes
Manage
To treat with care; to husband.
Maintain
State or assert;
He maintained his innocence
Manage
To bring about; to contrive.
Maintain
Support against an opponent;
The appellate court upheld the verdict
Manage
To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.
Leave them to manage for thee.
Maintain
Observe correctly or closely;
The pianist kept time with the metronome
Keep count
I cannot keep track of all my employees
Manage
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
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
Manage
Come to terms or deal successfully with;
We got by on just a gallon of gas
They made do on half a loaf of bread every day
Manage
Watch and direct;
Who is overseeing this project?
Manage
Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
Manage
Carry on or manage;
We could do with a little more help around here
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