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Verb
- provide with workers
- We cannot man all the desks
- Students were manning the booths
- take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place
- Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning
Noun
- all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
- all the world loves a lover
- she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- he taught me to set up the men on the chess board
- he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage
- one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea
- a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman
- she takes good care of her man
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer
- Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man
- an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent)
- the army will make a man of you
- a male subordinate
- the chief stationed two men outside the building
- he awaited word from his man in Havana
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
- the generic use of the word to refer to any human being
- it was every man for himself
- someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force
- two men stood sentry duty
- an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- there were two women and six men on the bus