Meaning

(uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.

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.

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.

Excellent time management helped her succeed in all facets of her life.

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• managements

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