Definition
nounAdministration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.
nounThe executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
Sentence Examples
Management of a company is different from ownership of a company.
A successful business is built on careful financial management.
The new management improved working conditions for everyone.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *manus
Latin manus
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Latin -izāre
Vulgar Latin *manizāre
Old Italian maneggiareder.?
Old French manegebor.
Middle English *manage
English manage
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English management
From manage + -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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: