manageryEtymologyCompare Old French menagerie, mesnagerie. See manage and compare menagerie.managery means Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.nounManagement; manner of using; conduct; direction.“Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it.”Husbandry; economy; frugality.“1724, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time, Volume I, Book II: The History of the Reign of King Charles II, p. 330, But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable managery in that particular drew upon them an expence of many millions […]”Something requiring management; a project.“[…] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […]”