Meaning of MANAGEMENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'manijmunt
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| Matching Terms: | | management consultant, management consulting, management indicator species, management information base, management information system, management personnel
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| | Definition: | | 1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...". 2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed "The Mgt"; this derives from the "Illuminatus!" novels. [jargon file] |
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplishment, achievement, acme, action, administration, agency, archon, auspices, austerity, austerity program, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, blue ribbon, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, bosses, bureaucracy, cabinet, cadre, canniness, care, carefulness, championship, chancellor, charge, chariness, chief executive, chief executive officer, civil government, command, commission, completion, conduct, control, council, cure, custodianship, custody, dean, directing, direction, directorate, directors, directorship, directory, discharge, discipline, dispatch, dispensation, disposition, dominion, driving, economic planning, economicalness, economy, economy of means, effectiveness, effectuation, empery, empire, employment, enactment, execution, executive, executive arm, executive committee, executive director, executive hierarchy, executive officer, executive secretary, executives, exercise, exploitation, false economy, first place, first prize, forehandedness, form of government, frugality, frugalness, functioning, good management, governance, governing board, governing body, government, guardianship, guidance, handling, hands, headship, hegemony, height, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, highest, husbandry, imperium, implementation, influence, infrastructure, intendance, interlocking directorate, jurisdiction, keeping, kingship, lead, leadership, leading, lordship, magistrate, managery, managing, managing director, manipulation, mastership, mastery, maximum, means of dealing, ministry, most, ne plus ultra, new high, occupation, officer, official, officialdom, operancy, operation, ordering, oversight, palms, paramountcy, parsimoniousness, parsimony, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, performance, performing, perpetration, pilotage, political organization, polity, power, practice, prefect, prelacy, presidency, president, prexy, primacy, protectorship, providence, provost, prudence, prudential administration, record, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, reign, responsibility, rule, ruling class, ruling classes, running, safe hands, say, secretary, sovereignty, sparingness, steerage, steering, steering committee, stewardship, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, supremacy, sway, system of government, the administration, the authorities, the brass, the conn, the Establishment, the executive, the helm, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, the wheel, them, they, thrift, thriftiness, tight purse strings, top brass, top spot, transaction, treasurer, treatment, tutelage, unwastefulness, usage, using, utilization, vice-chancellor, vice-president, ward, warden, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, wing, work, working, workings, zenith |
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