English
Noun
Manipulation (plural Manipulations)
- The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
- The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.
- The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.
- After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.
- The devious management of some situation, especially for one’s own advantage.
- He found that the new manager was known for his Macchiavellian manipulations in his last two positions.
- The usage of psychological influence over a person or situation to gain a positive outcome.
- The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.
Thesaurus
accounting, action, agency, anal intercourse, analysis, artifice, authority, autoeroticism, automatic electronic navigation, bear raid, behind-the-scenes influence, bestiality, braking, buggery, bull raid, cabal, caressing, collusion, command, complicity, complot, computation, conduct, confederacy, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, control, coordination, corner, corner in, counterplot, covin, cunnilingus, deep-laid plot, devices, direction, driving, employment, engineering, execution, exercise, expedients, exploitation, fact distribution, feeling, fellatio, fellation, finagling, finesse, fingering, forecasts, frame-up, friction, frottage, functioning, game, governance, government, guidance, hand job, handling, husbandry, influence, inspection, intrigue, irrumation, lead, leading, little game, machination, management, managery, managing, maneuvering, maneuvers, masturbation, monopoly, nonlinear calibrations, occupation, onanism, operancy, operation, oral-genital stimulation, ordering, output measurement, palpation, pederasty, performance, performing, petting, pilotage, plot, plotting, political influence, practice, pressure, processing, raid, record keeping, regulation, responsibility, rigging, rubbing, running, scheme, schemery, scheming, self-abuse, sodomy, steerage, steering, stratagem, stroking, supersonic flow detection, tactical maneuvers, tactics, the conn, the helm, the wheel, touching, trick, underplot, using, utilization, wash sale, washing, web of intrigue, wire-pulling, work, working, workings
Pronunciation
- (UK): IPA: /ˈmən.ɪpˌjʊu.leɪ.ʃʌn/
- Hyphenation: MAN-ip-YOO-lay-shun
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Translations
skillful use of the hands
