Polish

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Etymology

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From kierownik +‎ -ctwo. First attested in 1811.[1] Compare Kashubian czerownictwò.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kjɛ.rɔvˈɲit͡s.tfɔ/
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  • Rhymes: -it͡stfɔ
  • Syllabification: kie‧row‧nic‧two

Noun

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kierownictwo n

  1. (uncountable) management, guidance, direction (act of managing people, companies, or institutions) [with nad (+ instrumental) ‘over what’]
    Synonyms: kierowanie, zarządzanie
  2. (countable) management, guidance, direction (group of people performing such managing)
    Synonyms: dyrekcja, szefostwo, naczalstwo
  3. (countable) management, guidance, direction (building where such managing takes place)

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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), kierownictwo is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 2 times in scientific texts, 35 times in news, 27 times in essays, 5 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 69 times, making it the 931st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Gazeta Lwowska (in Polish), number 41, 1811 August 20, page 1011
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “kierownictwo”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 176

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