manipulations
- 1Plural of manipulation.
The accountant's quiet manipulations of the figures went unnoticed for years.
Skilled manipulations of the controls kept the aircraft steady through the storm.
Note
A plural that only works where the singular can be counted. Manipulation can name a practice, a skill or a state in the abstract, but its plural picks out separate acts: a chiropractor's manipulations of a joint, a schemer's manipulations of a situation. When you mean the condition of being manipulated rather than the individual acts, the singular is the natural choice.
manipulations is a form of manipulation
manipulation, noun: Influencing people, or the course of events, by psychological means in order to bring about the result one wants. Full entry
- Forms
- manipulationmanipulations plural
- Spelling
- manipulation → manipulations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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