Management
['mænɪdʒm(ə)nt] or ['mænɪdʒmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of managing something; 'he was given overall management of the program'; 'is the direction of the economy a function of government?'.
(noun.) those in charge of running a business.
Typed by Dido--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.
(v.) Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.
(v.) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.
(v.) The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.
Typist: Manfred
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Conduct, control, direction, charge, administration, superintendence, care, SURVEILLANCE.[2]. Contrivance, prudent conduct, cunning practice.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Treatment, conduct, administration, government, address, skill,superintendence, skillful_treatment
ANT:Maltreatment, misconduct, maladministration, misgovernment, maladroitness
Checker: Natalia
Examples
- The business may still flourish with good management, and the master become as rich as any of the company. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Clear waste, sir, of a thousand dollars, just for want of management,--there's where 't is. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- So far as ability of control, of management, was concerned, it amounted to rule-of-thumb procedure, to routine. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A coach may, with good management, last ten or twelve years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And indeed they did; they were quite beyond my uncle's management, and kept the old gentleman in a panic for sixteen hours out of the twenty-four. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- From some it derives a flavour which no culture or management can equal, it is supposed, upon any other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The management beg leave to offer to the public an entertainment surpassing in magnificence any thing that has heretofore been attempted on any stage. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He undertook the management of some affair which required attention while we were away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There is the management of his estate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was naturally to be expected, therefore, that folly, negligence, and profusion, should prevail in the whole management of their affairs. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- This man?uvre required management. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs. Bretton's kind management procured me this respite. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This, in connection with an ingenious management of springs, absorbed the shocks and governed the machine so that no matter what was done to it, it would operate only at a certain speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The management beg leave to state that they have succeeded in securing the services of a GALAXY OF TALENT! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am overpowered by the discovery of my own genius for management. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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