management

See also: Management

English

Etymology

From manage +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈmænəd͡ʒmənt/

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• (General South African) IPA^(key): /mənˈeɪd͡ʒmənt/

Noun

management (usually uncountable, plural managements)

1. (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.

2. 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.

3. (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.

   Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.

Synonyms

• (process or practice of managing): mgt, mgmt, mgmt., Mgmt., mng't

Hyponyms

• adaptive management
• advanced traffic management
• anger management
• antimanagement
• application lifecycle management
• asset management
• change management
• collaborative project management
• comanagement
• critical incident stress management
• cross-platform application management
• data management
• dependency management
• digital restrictions management
• digital rights management
• disease management
• ecomanagement
• enterprise feedback management
• financial 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
• project management
• property management
• reputation management
• revenue management
• risk management
• social project management
• software configuration management
• soil management
• soil management
• source configuration management
• strategic management
• submanagement
• talent management
• time management
• total quality management
• undermanagement
• work management

 

Derived terms

• content management system
• database management system
• document management system
• learning content management system
• macro-management
• management accounting
• managemental
• management cybernetics
• managementese
• management sim
• management summaries
• management summary
• management system
• manglement
• micro-management
• package management system
• project-management
• self-management
• servlet-management

 

Related terms

• manage
• manager
• managerial

 

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

• Albanian: menaxhim m
• Arabic: إِدَارَة (ar) f (ʔidāra)
• Armenian: կառավարում (hy) (kaṙavarum), մենեջմենթ (hy) (meneǰmentʻ)
• Azerbaijani: menecment
• Belarusian: ме́неджмент m (mjénjedžmjent), мэ́нэджмэнт m (ménedžment), кірава́нне n (kiravánnje)
• Bulgarian: ме́ниджмънт m (ménidžmǎnt)
• Catalan: administració (ca) f, gestió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經營／经营 (zh) (jīngyíng), 管理 (zh) (guǎnlǐ)

• Czech: řízení (cs) n, management (cs) m
• Danish: drift (da) c, administration (da) c
• Dutch: management (nl) n, administratie (nl) f, beheer (nl) n, bestuur (nl) n, directie (nl) f
• Finnish: johtaminen (fi), hallinto (fi), yritysjohtaminen (of a company)
• French: administration (fr) f, gestion (fr) f, gérance (fr) f, direction (fr) f
• Galician: administración (gl) f
• Georgian: მენეჯმენტი (meneǯmenṭi)
• German: Verwaltung (de) f, Führung (de) f, Handhabung (de) f, Leitung (de) f, Regie (de) f, Management (de) n
• Greek: διοίκηση (el) n (dioíkisi), διαχείριση (el) f (diacheírisi), μάνατζμεντ (el) n (mánatzment)

  Ancient: χειρισμός m (kheirismós)

• Hindi: प्रबंधन (hi) m (prabandhan)
• Hungarian: ügyintézés (hu), menedzsment (hu)
• Indonesian: manajemen (id), pengelolaan (id)
• Irish: reachtas, riar, bainistiú m, bainistíocht f, bainisteoireacht f
• Italian: amministrazione (it) f, direzione (it) f, gestione (it)
• Japanese: 管理 (ja) (かんり, kanri)
• Kazakh: менеджмент (menedjment)
• Korean: 관리(管理) (ko) (gwalli)
• Latin: procuratio f, tractātiō f
• Latvian: vadībzinība (lv) f
• Lithuanian: vadyba f
• Macedonian: управување n (upravuvanje), раководење n (rakovodenje), менаџмент m (menadžment)
• Malay: pengurusan (ms)
• Malayalam: മേൽനോട്ടം (ml) (mēlnōṭṭaṁ), മാനേജ്മെന്റ് (mānējmenṟŭ)
• Maori: rōpū whakahaere
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: удирдлага (mn) (udirdlaga), менеджмент (menedžment)

• Navajo: naachʼid
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ledelse m, forvaltning m or f

  Nynorsk: forvalting f, forvaltning f

• Persian: مدیریت (fa) (modiriyyat), اداره (fa) (edâre)
• Polish: zarządzanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: administração (pt) f, gerência (pt)
• Russian: управле́ние (ru) n (upravlénije), ме́неджмент (ru) m (mɛ́nɛdžment, ménɛdžment)
• Scottish Gaelic: stiùireadh m, riaghladh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀правља̄ње n, мѐнаџмент m

  Roman: ùpravljānje n, mènadžment (sh) m

• Slovak: manažment m
• Slovene: menedžment m
• Spanish: administración (es) f, gestión (es) f
• Swahili: menejimenti
• Swedish: styrelse (sv) c, skötsel (sv), ledning (sv) c
• Tajik: мудирият (mudiriyat)
• Thai: การจัดการ (th) (gaan-jàt-gaan)
• Turkish: idare (tr)
• Ukrainian: управлі́ння n (upravlínnja), ме́неджмент (uk) m (ménedžment), керува́ння (uk) n (keruvánnja)
• Vietnamese: sự quản lý (vi)
• Yiddish: אַדמיניסטראַציע f (administratsye)

the executives of an organisation

• Belarusian: кіраўні́цтва n (kiraŭníctva)
• Bulgarian: ръково́дство (bg) n (rǎkovódstvo), управле́ние (bg) n (upravlénie)
• Catalan: direcció (ca) f, gerència (ca) f
• Danish: ledelse c, bestyrelse (da) c, direktion c
• Dutch: management (nl) n, bestuur (nl) n
• Finnish: johto (fi)
• Galician: dirección (gl) f
• Hungarian: vezetőség (hu)
• Indonesian: direksi (id), manajemen (id), pengelola (id)
• Italian: dirigenza (it) f
• Maori: rōpū whakahaere
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: удирдлага (mn) (udirdlaga), захиргаа (mn) (zaxirgaa)

• Russian: руково́дство (ru) n (rukovódstvo), управле́ние (ru) n (upravlénije)
• Spanish: dirección (es) f
• Swahili: menejimenti
• Swedish: ledning (sv) c, styrelse (sv) c, direktion (sv) c
• Ukrainian: керівни́цтво (uk) n (kerivnýctvo)

judicious use of means

• Catalan: maneig (ca) m, gestió (ca) f, administració (ca) f
• Finnish: hallinta (fi)
• French: gestion (fr) f
• Hungarian: gazdálkodás (hu)
• Latin: tractātiō f
• Portuguese: administração (pt) f
• Spanish: administración (es) f

References

• "management" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, 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

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English management.

Pronunciation

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Noun

management m inan

1. (management) management

   Synonym: řízení

Declension

Declension of management (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	management	managementy
genitive	managementu	managementů
dative	managementu	managementům
accusative	management	managementy
vocative	managemente	managementy
locative	managementu	managementech
instrumental	managementem	managementy

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English management.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: ma‧nage‧ment

Noun

management n (uncountable)

1. (management) management

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English management.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.na(d)ʒ.mɑ̃/, /ma.nadʒ.mɛnt/

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Noun

management m (plural managements)

1. (management) management

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/
• Rhymes: -anadʒment, -ɛnadʒment, -ɛnedʒment, -ɛnidʒment

Noun

management m (invariable)

1. (management) management

Further reading

• management in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English management.

Noun

management n (uncountable)

1. 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.

Noun

management m (plural managements)

1. management