Micromanage

Quick meaning: Micromanage is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To manage, direct, or control a person, group, or system to an unnecessary level of detail or precision.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To manage, direct, or control a person, group, or system to an unnecessary level of detail or precision.

Example Sentences

The employees complained that their boss was micromanaging when she insisted that they account for their time in fifteen-minute intervals.

As GBR is intended to operate at arm's length from government while also being responsible for implementing a 30-year strategy, it is hoped that the industry will be less micro-managed by ministers and officials at both the DfT and within the Treasury.

Word Forms

• micromanages
• micromanaging
• micromanaged

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outmanage, overrefine, underdefine, underoptimize, minimize, menialize.

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