manager
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
manager (plural managers)
- (management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.
- Synonyms: administrator, boss, chief, controller, comptroller, foreman, head, head man, overseer, organizer, superintendent, supervisor
- 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:
- And it was a fitting victory for Liverpool as Anfield celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of their legendary Scottish manager Bill Shankly.
- (baseball, soccer) The head coach.
- (music) An administrator, for a singer or group. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (software) A window or application whose purpose is to give the user the control over some aspect of the system.
Derived terms
- account manager
- assistant manager
- assistant stage manager
- bank manager
- boot manager
- branch manager
- can I speak to the manager haircut
- chairmanager
- city manager
- co-manager
- comanager
- community manager
- corpus manager
- credit manager
- data manager
- district manager
- download manager
- duty manager
- file manager
- floor manager
- fund manager
- game manager
- general manager
- house manager
- I want to speak to the manager haircut
- line manager
- managerdom
- managerese
- managerless
- managerly
- managership
- micro manager
- micromanager
- middle manager
- momager
- multimanager
- nonmanager
- operations manager
- orthodox file manager
- package manager
- player-manager
- product manager
- project manager
- project-manager
- road manager
- seagull manager
- stage manager
- store manager
- submanager
- supermanager
- task manager
- technomanager
- town manager
- undermanager
- under-manager
- window manager
- womanager
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Albanian: menaxher
- → Burmese: မန်နေဂျာ (mannegya)
- → Catalan: mànager
- → Dutch: manager
- → French: manager
- → Turkish: menajer
- → German: Manager
- → Greek: μάνατζερ (mánatzer)
- → Hungarian: menedzser
- → Italian: manager
- → Japanese: マネージャー (manējā)
- → Korean: 매니저 (maenijeo)
- → Polish: menedżer
- → Romanian: manager
- → Russian: ме́неджер (ménedžer)
- → Scottish Gaelic: manaidsear
- → Spanish: mánager
- → Swahili: meneja
- → Ukrainian: ме́неджер (ménedžer)
Translations
person whose job is to manage something
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administrator, for a singer or group
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in computer software
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English manager.
Pronunciation
Noun
manager m (plural managers, diminutive managertje n)
- a manager, someone in management
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English manager.
Pronunciation
Noun
manager m (plural managers)
Verb
manager
- (colloquial, North America) to manage
Descendants
- → Turkish: menajer
Further reading
- “manager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English manager.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈma.na.d͡ʒer/, /ˈmɛ.na.d͡ʒer/, /ˈma.ne.d͡ʒer/, /ˈmɛ.ne.d͡ʒer/[1]
- Rhymes: -anadʒer, -ɛnadʒer, -anedʒer, -ɛnedʒer
- Hyphenation: mà‧na‧ger
Noun
manager m (plural managers)
References
- ^ manager in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
- manager in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English manager.
Pronunciation
Noun
manager m pers (female equivalent managerka)
- (management) Alternative spelling of menedżer
- (music) Alternative spelling of menedżer
- (computing) Alternative spelling of menedżer
Declension
Declension of manager
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | manager | managerowie |
| genitive | managera | managerów |
| dative | managerowi | managerom |
| accusative | managera | managerów |
| instrumental | managerem | managerami |
| locative | managerze | managerach |
| vocative | managerze | managerowie |
Derived terms
adjective
noun
verb
Related terms
adverb
Further reading
- manager in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- manager in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from English manager.
Noun
manager m (plural manageri)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | manager | managerul | manageri | managerii | |
| genitive-dative | manager | managerului | manageri | managerilor | |
| vocative | managerule | managerilor | |||
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English manager.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -anaʝeɾ
Noun
manager m (plural managers)
- Alternative form of mánager
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.