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/mˈænədʒər/ /mˈænɪdʒər/ Listen

noun

Manager n.

One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater. "A skillful manager of the rabble."

A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist. "A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure."

A contriver; an intriguer.

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Etymology of 'Manager'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manager" Quotes from Famous Books

... has just finished going through the young man's first report as manager of the lard department, and he finds ...

— Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... who are not in the secret will hardly believe that the School for Scandal is the play which has brought the least money, averaging the number of times it has been acted since its production; so Manager Dibdin assured me. Of what has occurred since Maturin's Bertram I am not aware[B]; so that I may be traducing, through ignorance, some excellent new writers; if so, I beg their pardon. I have been absent from England nearly five years, and, ...

— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron

... of which he had made some trifling amendments. Mr. Weldon, by request, read these most carefully and conscientiously, making quite plain that the entire working management of the consolidated stores was to be under the direct charge of a general manager and an assistant general manager, who were to be appointed and have their salaries fixed by the board of directors, as was meet and proper. Gravely the stock-holders voted upon the adoption of the constitution and by-laws, and, with a feeling of pride, as the secretary ...

— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester

... seek the Commission I undertook, but was partly Cajold, and partly menac'd into it by the Lord Bellomont, and one Robert Livingston of New York, who was the projector, promoter, and Chief Manager of that designe, and who only can give your House a satisfactory account of all the Transactions of my Owners. He was the man admitted into their Closets, and received their private Instructions, which he kept in his own hands, and ...

— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various

... to get a hen. I've had him five years. The last manager of the mill gave him to me, but you'se sees he can't never go out and walk around because of the dogs, so I just keeps ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

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