management
See also: Management
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmænəd͡ʒmənt/
- (General South African) IPA(key): /mənˈeɪd͡ʒmənt/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file)
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 1023879857, page 168:
- The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
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- 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 222716698:
- 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.
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- (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.
- Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.
Hyponyms
- adaptive management
- advanced traffic management
- anger management
- antimanagement
- asset management
- change management
- comanagement
- critical incident stress management
- cross-platform application management
- data management
- digital rights management
- disease management
- ecomanagement
- enterprise feedback management
- financial management
- human resource management
- human resources management
- information management
- inventory management
- knowledge management
- line management
- malmanagement
- man management
- master data management
- matrix management
- micromanagement
- middle management
- midmanagement
- mismanagement
- nonmanagement
- overmanagement
- performance management
- project management
- property management
- revenue management
- risk management
- software configuration management
- soil management
- soil management
- source configuration management
- strategic management
- submanagement
- talent management
- time management
- total quality management
- undermanagement
Derived terms
- content management system
- database management system
- document management system
- learning content management system
- macro-management
- management accounting
- managemental
- management cybernetics
- managementese
- management summaries
- management summary
- management system
- manglement
- package management system
- performance management system
- project-management
- servlet-management
Related terms
Descendants
- → Czech: management
- → Danish: management
- → Dutch: management
- → French: management
- → German: Management
- → Greek: μάνατζμεντ (mánatzment)
- → Hungarian: menedzsment
- → Italian: management
- → Russian: ме́неджмент (ménedžment)
- → Slovak: manažment
- → Spanish: management
- → Swahili: menejimenti
- → Swedish: management
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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Further reading
- "management" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 189.
- management at 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
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English management.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ma‧nage‧ment
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English management.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.na(d)ʒ.mɑ̃/, /ma.nadʒ.mɛnt/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “management”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English management.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈma.nad͡ʒ.ment/, /ˈmɛ.nad͡ʒ.ment/, /ˈmɛ.ned͡ʒ.ment/, /ˈmɛ.nid͡ʒ.ment/[1]
- Rhymes: -anadʒment, -ɛnadʒment, -ɛnedʒment, -ɛnidʒment
References
- management in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
- management in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English management.
Declension
declension of management (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) management | managementul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) management | managementului |
| vocative | managementule | |
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English management.
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