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kierownictwo

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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.rɔvˈɲi.t͡stfɔ/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -it͡stfɔ
    • Syllabification: kie‧row‧ni‧ctwo

    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)

    Declension

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    verbs

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

    Further reading

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