All manipulation synonyms

noun manipulation

• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• use — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
• handling — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
• administration — Administration is the range of activities connected with organizing and supervising the way that an organization or institution functions.
• direction — the act or an instance of directing.
• operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
• management — the act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.
• guidance — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
• influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• employment — The condition of having paid work.
• running — an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
• maneuvering — a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• exploitation — The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work.
• persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
• scheming — given to making plans, especially sly and underhand ones; crafty.
• falsification — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• forgery — the crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights or obligations of another person are apparently affected; simulated signing of another person's name to any such writing whether or not it is also the forger's name.
• alteration — An alteration is a change in or to something.
• tweaking — to pinch and pull with a jerk and twist: to tweak someone's ear; to tweak someone's nose.
• misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
• misapplication — to make a wrong application or use of.
• osteopathy — a therapeutic system originally based upon the premise that manipulation of the muscles and bones to promote structural integrity could restore or preserve health: current osteopathic physicians use the diagnostic and therapeutic techniques of conventional medicine as well as manipulative measures.
• massage — the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
• movement — the act, process, or result of moving.
• flexing — to bend, as a part of the body: He flexed his arms to show off his muscles.
• rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
• kneading — Present participle of knead.
• therapy — the treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabilitating, or curative process: speech therapy.
• physiotherapy — physical therapy.
• treatment — an act or manner of treating.