MANAGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manager mean? 

• MANAGER (noun)
  The noun MANAGER has 2 senses:

1. someone who controls resources and expenditures

2. (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team

  Familiarity information: MANAGER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANAGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who controls resources and expenditures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

director; manager; managing director

Hypernyms ("manager" is a kind of...):

administrator; decision maker (someone who administers a business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manager"):

bank manager (manager of a branch office of a bank)

district manager (a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district)

manageress (a woman manager)

Derivation:

manage (watch and direct)

managerial (of or relating to the function or responsibility or activity of management)

managership (the position of manager)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

coach; handler; manager

Hypernyms ("manager" is a kind of...):

trainer (one who trains other persons or animals)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "manager"):

baseball coach; baseball manager (a coach of baseball players)

basketball coach (a coach of basketball players)

conditioner (a trainer of athletes)

football coach (a coach of football players)

hockey coach (a coach of hockey players)

tennis coach (a coach of tennis players)

Instance hyponyms:

John Joseph McGraw; John McGraw; McGraw (United States baseball player and manager (1873-1934))

Derivation:

manage (watch and direct)

managership (the position of manager)

 Context examples 

This much I gathered from the manager of Cook’s local office.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You remember Parker, who used to be Coxon’s manager?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes’s card sent in to the manager ensured instant attention, and he was not long in acquiring all the information he needed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"But you tell the manager I'm going to work and that I'll be in in a month or so and straighten up."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Charlotte is an excellent manager, I dare say.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Many Cancers work with a number of collaborators in business, from agents and managers to publicists, social media managers, lawyers, and accountants.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

‘This is my secretary and manager,’ said the colonel. ‘By the way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just now.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oregon State University scientists led an international study that provides a road map as conservation managers consider the effects of forest edges on wildlife in setting up reserves.

(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)

To me? Bless you, child; what an idea! To me! I am only the housekeeper—the manager.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was a manager by necessity, without any of Mrs. Norris's inclination for it, or any of her activity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)