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conduct; behavior; deportment, comportment; carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance., dealing, transaction (action); business., tactics, game, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship, seamanship; strategy, strategics; plan., management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage; regime; economy, economics; political economy; government (direction)., execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record., course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi; method, path.

transact, execute; despatch, dispatch; proceed with, discharge; carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect; work out; go through, get through; enact; put into practice; officiate., bear oneself, behave onself, comport oneself, demean oneself, carry onself, conduct onself, acquit oneself., run a race, lead a life, play a game; take a course, adopt a course; steer one's course, shape one's course; play one's paint, play one's cards, shift for oneself; paddle one's own canoe; bail one's own boat., conduct; manage (direct)., deal with, have to do with; treat, handle a case; take steps, take measures.

conducting; strategical, businesslike, practical, executive. [more]