Manage vs. Administer — What's the Difference?

Be in charge of (a business, organization, or undertaking); run

To have charge of; manage.

Succeed in surviving or in achieving something despite difficult circumstances; cope

To give or apply in a formal way

To have charge of; direct or administer

To apply as a remedy

To exert control over; regulate or limit toward a desired end

To direct the taking of (an oath).

To direct or supervise (employees or other staff)

To mete out; dispense

To act as the manager of (a performer, for example).

To manage (a trust or estate) under a will or official appointment.

To succeed in accomplishing, achieving, or producing, especially with difficulty

To impose, offer, or tender (an oath, for example).

To succeed in coping or dealing with

To manage as an administrator.

To direct or conduct business affairs.

To minister

To continue to get along; carry on; cope

(transitive) To apportion out, distribute.

(transitive) To direct or be in charge of.

(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

(transitive) To handle or control (a situation, job).

(intransitive) To minister (to).

(transitive) To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

(intransitive) To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.

To give, as an oath.

(ambitransitive) To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.

(transitive) (medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.

To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.

(transitive) (medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.

To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.

(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.

To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.

(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.

The act of managing or controlling something.

To tender, as an oath.

(horseriding) Manège.

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.

To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

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.

Administrator.

To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

Work in an administrative capacity; supervise;

To treat with care; to husband.

Administer ritually; of church sacraments

To bring about; to contrive.

Administer or bestow, as in small portions;

To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.

Give or apply (medications)

Be successful; achieve a goal;

Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of;

Come to terms or deal successfully with;

Watch and direct;

Achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods

Carry on or manage;