comanage

verb

co·​man·​age ˌkō-ˈma-nij 

variants or co-manage

comanaged or co-managed; comanaging or co-managing

transitive verb

: to manage (someone or something) with one or more other people

He comanages the restaurant with his sister.

: to manage together

If there's one thing that's harder than managing your own money it's this: co-managing money with a romantic partner.

—Susannah Snider

comanagement

ˌkō-ˈma-nij-mənt 

noun

or co-management

… he settled on a comanagement approach, working side by side with school systems—and preferably unions, too—in hiring and management.

—Elizabeth Conlin

comanager

ˌkō-ˈma-ni-jər 

noun

or co-manager

plural comanagers or co-managers

… they brought Ann Richards in as campaign adviser and co-manager.

—Emily W. Sunstein

Examples of comanage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

David Trujillo and Nehal Raj, TPG partners, are comanaging partners of TTAD. —Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023

Read full article In this case, Goulston wants a more modern and densely-packed location, in which individual lawyers’ offices are all the same size, according to comanaging director Bill Dillon. —Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above