Meaning of manipulation In English

• 0 controlling someone or something to your own advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly:

  • They have been accused of fraud and stock market manipulations.

  • There's been so much media manipulation of the facts that nobody knows the truth of the matter.

  • The country's opposition party claims the president returned to power through political manipulation.

• 1 treatment of a part of the body using the hands:

  • Osteopathy involves massage and manipulation of the bones and joints.

• 2 the action of influencing or controlling someone or something to your advantage, often without anyone knowing it:

  • [ U ] They have been accused of illegal manipulation of the stock market.

• 3 an act of controlling or moving something by using the hands:

  • [ U ] Often a dislocated finger can be fixed by manipulation.

• 4 the control of someone or something in order to get an advantage, often unfairly or dishonestly:

  • He believed that regulators should try to eliminate fraud and market manipulation.

  • Federal authorities are conducting a widespread investigation of the manipulation of stock option grants.

• 5 using something, often with a lot of skill:

  • the manipulation of complex machinery

• 6 the process of changing, moving, etc. information on a computer:

  • data manipulation