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See also: Management
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
management (usually uncountable, plural managements)
- (uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
- The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
- 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.
- (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.
- Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.
- (uncountable) The prosecuting side in an impeachment trial (as opposed to the respondent or defending side).
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- adaptive management
- advanced traffic management
- anger management
- antimanagement
- application lifecycle management
- asset management
- change management
- collaborative project management
- comanagement
- credit management
- crisis management
- critical incident stress management
- cross-platform application management
- data management
- dependency management
- digital restrictions management
- digital rights management
- disease management
- ecomanagement
- enterprise feedback management
- facility management
- financial management
- general management
- human resource management
- human resources management
- information management
- integrated pest management
- inventory management
- knowledge management
- line management
- malmanagement
- management by exception
- man management
- master data management
- matrix management
- micromanagement
- middle management
- midmanagement
- mismanagement
- nonmanagement
- overmanagement
- package management
- performance management
- product management
- project management
- property management
- reputation management
- revenue management
- risk management
- social project management
- software configuration management
- soil management
- source configuration management
- strategic management
- submanagement
- talent management
- time management
- total quality management
- undermanagement
- work management
Derived terms
- biomanagement
- content management system
- database management system
- document management system
- learning content management system
- macro-management
- macromanagement
- management accounting
- managemental
- management cybernetics
- managementese
- management sim
- management summaries
- management summary
- management system
- manglement
- micro-management
- package management system
- personal knowledge management
- pharmacomanagement
- project-management
- self-management
- servlet-management
- technomanagement
Related terms
Descendants
- → Albanian: menaxhmenti
- → Armenian: մենեջմենթ (meneǰmentʻ)
- → Assamese: মেনেজমেন্ত (menezomento)
- → Bashkir: менеджмент (menedjment)
- → Belarusian: менеджмент (mjenjedžmjent)
- → Bulgarian: мениджмънт (menidžmǎnt)
- → Czech: management
- → Danish: management
- → Dutch: management
- → French: management
- → Georgian: მენეჯმენტი (meneǯmenṭi)
- → German: Management
- →? Bavarian: Management
- → Greek: μάνατζμεντ (mánatzment)
- → Guinea-Bissau Creole: manajman
- → Hungarian: menedzsment
- → Italian: management
- → Indonesian: manajemen
- → Minangkabau: manajemen
- → Karakalpak: menedjment
- → Kazakh: менеджмент (menedjment)
- → Kyrgyz: менеджмент (menedjment)
- → Latvian: menedžments
- → Malayalam: മാനേജ്മെന്റ് (mānējmenṟŭ)
- → Marathi: मॅनेजमेंट (mĕnejmeṇṭa)
- → Mongolian: менежмент (menežment)
- > Pitcairn-Norfolk: manajement (inherited)
- → Romanian: management
- → Russian: ме́неджмент (ménedžment)
- → Azerbaijani: menecment
- → Serbo-Croatian: menadžment
- → Scots: management
- → Slovak: manažment
- → Slovene: menedžment
- → Spanish: management
- → Swahili: menejimenti
- → Swedish: management
- → Tajik: management
- → Tatar: менеджмент (menedjment)
- → Ukrainian: ме́неджмент (ménedžment)
- → Uzbek: menejment
Translations
administration; the process or practice of managing
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the executives of an organisation
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judicious use of means
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References
- Raymond Williams (1983), “Management”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 189
- “management”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- management in Britannica Dictionary
- management in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
- management in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
- management in Ozdic collocation dictionary
- management in WordReference English Collocations
Further reading
management on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English management.
Pronunciation
Noun
management m inan
- (management) management
- Synonym: řízení
Declension
Declension of management (hard masculine inanimate)
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
management n (uncountable, no diminutive)
Related terms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
management m (plural managements)
Further reading
- “management”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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