management

CEFRB1

/ˈmæn.ɪdʒ.mənt/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.
The prosecuting side in an impeachment trial (as opposed to the respondent or defending side).

In context

The new management improved working conditions for everyone.
Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.
The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.

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The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168
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.
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
Management has been lazy, too—management has found it easier to hire an additional five hundred men than to so improve its methods that one hundred men of the old force could be released to other work. The public was paying, and business was booming, and management didn't care a pin.
1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 259

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