managery

noun3

1. •
   Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

   • Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it. — 1716
2. •
   Husbandry; economy; frugality.

   • But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable managery in that particular drew upon them an expence of many millions […] — 1724
3. •
   (no longer used) Something requiring management; a project.

   • […] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […] — 1742