MANAGER • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Manager

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/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.

See images of 'Manager'

Etymology of 'Manager'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Manager" Quotes from Famous Books

... a woman can carry on this work even temporarily? No! The manager of an institution like this has got to be young and husky and energetic and forceful and efficient and red-haired and sweet-tempered, like me. Of course I've been discontented,—anybody would be ...

— Dear Enemy • Jean Webster

... and his followers, however, differs from that of the ordinary manager who maintains an irritated disregard of the disturbing elements instead of accepting them and, as far as is consistent with business principles, allaying or cajoling them. The significant contributions which scientific management has made are ...

— Creative Impulse in Industry - A Proposition for Educators • Helen Marot

... to brass tacks. You're played out as manager and engineer-in-chief, so it's time for you to step out and give the men who are able a chance to complete the work. I made you one offer; I'm prepared to-day to make even a better one. The bondholders went thoroughly into the subject with me of ...

— The Iron Furrow • George C. Shedd

... are all much interested in. I was in charge of the buffet, and thought it better to apply at once to one of the great caterers, Potel and Chabot, and see what they could do for us. We made an appointment, and Mme. de B. and I drove down to the place. The manager was out, but they told us that Madame was waiting for us in the back shop. We found rather a pretty woman, very well dressed in velvet, with diamond earrings, and I was put out at first—thought that didn't look like business. ...

— Chateau and Country Life in France • Mary King Waddington

... Besides, the manager happened to know that Gay and Arbuthnot were at that moment staying at Hampstead to drink the waters—the first to cure his dyspepsia, and the second to ease his gout. Palmer decided to send word to the poet-dramatist intimating that ...

— Madame Flirt - A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' • Charles E. Pearce

More quotes...