management

See also: Management

English

Etymology

manage +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmænɪdʒmənt/
• (General American, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmænədʒmənt/

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Noun

management (usually uncountable, plural managements)

1. (uncountable, management) Administration; The use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.
2. (management) The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     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

• advanced traffic management
• anger management
• change management
• cross-platform application management
• data management
• disease management
• human resource management
• inventory management
• knowledge management
• master data management
• micromanagement
• middle management
• project management
• risk management
• soil management
• strategic management
• time management

 

Derived terms

• adaptive management
• advanced traffic management
• anger management
• antimanagement
• asset management
• change management
• comanagement
• content management system
• critical incident stress management
• database management system
• data management
• digital rights management
• document management system
• ecomanagement
• enterprise feedback management
• financial management
• human resource management
• human resources management
• information management
• inventory management
• knowledge management
• learning content management system
• line management
• macro-management
• malmanagement
• management accounting
• managemental
• management cybernetics
• managementese
• management summaries
• management summary
• management system
• man management
• master data management
• matrix management
• micromanagement
• middle management
• midmanagement
• mismanagement
• nonmanagement
• overmanagement
• package management system
• performance management
• performance management system
• project-management
• project management
• property management
• revenue management
• risk management
• servlet-management
• software configuration management
• soil management
• source configuration management
• strategic management
• submanagement
• talent management
• time management
• total quality management
• undermanagement

 

Related terms

• manage
• manager
• managerial

 

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), 经营 (zh) (jīngyíng), 管理 (zh) (guǎnlǐ)

• Czech: řízení (cs) n, management (cs) m
• Danish: drift c, administration (da) c
• Dutch: management (nl), 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: प्रबन्धन (hi) m (prabandhan)
• Hungarian: ügyintézés (hu), menedzsment (hu)
• 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 (ko) (gwalli)
• Latin: procuratio f, tractātiō f
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• Latvian: vadībzinība (lv) f
• Lithuanian: vadyba f
• Macedonian: управување n (upravuvanje), раководење n (rakovodenje), менаџмент m (menadžment)
• Malay: pengurusan
• Maori: rōpū whakahaere
• Mongolian: 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: управљање n, менаџмент m

  Roman: upravljanje n, menadžment (sh) m

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

the executives of an organisation

• Catalan: direcció (ca) f, gerència f
• Danish: ledelse c, bestyrelse (da) c, direktion c
• Dutch: management (nl) n, bestuur (nl) n
• Finnish: johto (fi)
• Galician: dirección (gl) f
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• Italian: dirigenza (it) f
• Mongolian: удирдлага (mn) (udirdlaga), захиргаа (mn) (zaxirgaa)
• Spanish: dirección (es) f
• Swedish: ledning (sv) c, styrelse (sv) c, direktion (sv) c

judicious use of means

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

Further reading

• "management" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 189.

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Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English management.

Pronunciation

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Noun

1. (management) management

Synonyms

• řízení n

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English management.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: ma‧nage‧ment

Noun

management n (uncountable)

1. (management) management

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English management.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

management m (plural managements)

1. (management) management

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English management.

Noun

management m (uncountable)

1. (management) management

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English management.

Noun

management m (plural managements)

1. management