Manager
['mænɪdʒə] or ['mænɪdʒɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.
(n.) A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist.
(n.) A contriver; an intriguer.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Director, superintendent, overseer, supervisor, comptroller, governor.[2]. Economist, good economist.
Checker: Mattie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Director, superintendent, overseer, supervisor
ANT:Workman, follower, workingman
Checker: Rita
Examples
- At the hotel I asked Catherine to wait in the carriage while I went in and spoke to the manager. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A little more justice, Mr. Manager, if you please. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The manager stopped and unlocked a door and opened it. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And Sophy's an extraordinary manager! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This automatic electrocuting device attracted so much attention, and got half a column in an evening paper, that the manager made me stop it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Bates, Manager of the Baltimore & Ohio telegraph for Robert Garrett; and Andrew Carnegie, the greatest ironmaster the world has ever known, as well as its greatest philanthropist. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the end of the interview the owner had offered Edison the position of manager at a salary of three hundred dollars a month, and Edison had accepted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But the production of the photograph had a remarkable effect upon the manager. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Some people say that the manager just plunges his hand into the heap and takes the first that comes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- So much for the Lascar manager. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It could certainly not be the fault of Mrs. Bart, who was spoken of by her friends as a wonderful manager. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She's such a manager of fowls, you have no idea. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He has kissed another,' gasped the excited manager. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The carboy tipped over, the acid ran out, went through to the manager's room below, and ate up his desk and all the carpet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The wonderful Bank, of which he was the chief projector, establisher, and manager, was the latest of the many Merdle wonders. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Many of these pioneer students and workmen became afterward large and successful contractors, or have filled positions of distinction as managers and superintendents of central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At the beginning of every campaign the newspapers tell about secret conferences in which the candidate and his managers decide upon the line of attack. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One time there was to be a convention of the managers of Edison illuminating companies at Chicago. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No men in the world have more new inventions brought to them than railroad managers, and this was the rankest kind of novelty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The old grey managers, the old grey clerks, the doddering old pensioners, he looked at them, and removed them as so much lumber. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At present we want engineers, industrial men, good business-like managers, and railroad men. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His managers, who were all rare men, were no more expensive than the old bungling fools of his father's days, who were merely colliers promoted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Visitors, of course, were numerous, including many curious, sceptical railroad managers, few if any of whom except Villard could see the slightest use for the new motive power. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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