unmanage

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verb

To cease to manage; to relinquish ownership or control of.

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Meanings

verbunmanage (third-person singular simple present unmanages, present participle unmanaging, simple past and past participle unmanaged)

present singular third person unmanages · participle present unmanaging · participle past unmanaged · past unmanaged

  1. transitivecomputingTo cease to manage; to relinquish ownership or control of.

    Since the XmDialogShell is not used here, managing and unmanaging the child of the shell will have no effect on whether the shell window itself is visible.

    1994, David Flanagan, Motif tools: streamlined GUI design and programming with the Xmt library
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    The web interface enables you to unmanage a chassis, and re-manage the chassis in centralized user management mode. However, unmanaging a chassis deletes all of the chassis settings […]

    2014, Ilya Krutov, Carl Gola, Jeff Schoby, Implementing Systems Management of IBM PureFlex System, page 143

Origin

From un- + manage.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmanage,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmanage.

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