The lexical definition of " managed " is enlightening : " to direct or control the use of; to contrive or arrange; make submissive to one's authority, discipline or persuasion; to exert control over ."
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Note that a lexical definition is " descriptive ", reporting actual usage within speakers of a language, and changes with changing usage of the term, rather than " prescriptive ", which would be to stick with a version regarded as " correct ", regardless of drift in accepted meaning.
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Many holders of controversial and highly charged opinions use stipulative definitions in order to attach the emotional or other connotations of a word to the meaning they would like to give it; for example, defining " murder " as " the killing of any living thing for any reason . " The other side of such an argument is likely to use a different stipulative definition for the same term : " the premeditated killing of a human being . " The lexical definition in such a case is likely to fall somewhere in between.
