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See also: Management

English

Etymology

From manage + -ment.

Pronunciation

Noun

management (usually uncountable, plural managements)

  1. (uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.
  2. The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
      Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
    • 1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 259:
      Management has been lazy, too—management has found it easier to hire an additional five hundred men than to so improve its methods that one hundred men of the old force could be released to other work. The public was paying, and business was booming, and management didn't care a pin.
  3. (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.
    Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.
  4. (uncountable) The prosecuting side in an impeachment trial (as opposed to the respondent or defending side).

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English management.

Pronunciation

Noun

management m inan

  1. (management) management
    Synonym: řízení

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Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English management.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.nətʃ.mənt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ma‧nage‧ment

Noun

management n (uncountable, no diminutive)

  1. management

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English management.

Pronunciation

Noun

management m (plural managements)

  1. (management) management

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