(~s, coping, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ with a problem or task, you deal with it successfully.
It was amazing how my mother ~d with bringing up three children on less than three pounds a week...
The problems were an annoyance, but we managed to ~.
= manage
VERB: V with n/-ing, V
2.
If you have to ~ with an unpleasant situation, you have to accept it or bear it.
She has had to ~ with losing all her previous status and money.
= contend
VERB: V with n/-ing
3.
If a machine or a system can ~ with something, it is large enough or complex enough to deal with it satisfactorily.
New blades have been designed to ~ with the effects of dead insects...
The speed of economic change has been so great that the tax-collecting system has been unable to ~.
VERB: V with n, V