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leadership - 13 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | leadership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guidance |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, capacity, command, control, conveyance, direction, domination, foresight, hegemony, influence, initiative, management, power, primacy, skill, superiority, supremacy, sway, conduction, directorship, pilotage, preeminence, superintendency |
| Main Entry: | executive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who manages an organization |
| Synonyms: | VIP*, administration, administrator, big wheel*, boss, brass, businessperson, chief, commander, director, entrepreneur, government, governor, head, hierarchy, industrialist, leader, leadership, management, manager, officer, official, skipper*, supervisor, tycoon, CEO, CO, directorate, exec, head honcho, head person, heavyweight, higher-up, key player, top brass |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counseling |
| Synonyms: | advice, auspices, conduct, control, conveyance, direction, government, help, instruction, intelligence, leadership, management, navigation, supervision, teaching, conduction |
| Main Entry: | helm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wheel |
| Synonyms: | command, control, controls, driver's seat, leadership, reins, rudder, steering wheel, tiller |
| Main Entry: | influence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, authority |
| Synonyms: | access, agency, ascendancy, character, clout, command, consequence, control, credit, direction, domination, dominion, drag, effect, esteem, fame, fix, force, grease*, guidance, hold, impact, importance, imprint, juice*, leadership, leverage, magnetism, mark, moment, money, monopoly, network, notoriety, predominance, prerogative, pressure, prestige, prominence, pull, repercussion, reputation, rule, significance, spell, supremacy, sway, weight*, connections, in, ropes |
| Antonyms: | impotence, incapacity, inferiority, weakness, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | initiative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eagerness to do something |
| Synonyms: | action, ambition, drive, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, gumption*, leadership, moxie*, originality, punch, push, resource, spunk*, steam*, vigor, dynamism, get-up-and-go, inventiveness, resourcefulness |
| Antonyms: | indifference, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | running |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, care, charge, conduct, control, direction, handling, leadership, maintenance, operation, organization, oversight, performance, regulation, supervision, working, coordination, functioning, intendance, superintendency |
| Main Entry: | hegemony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dominion |
| Synonyms: | authority, command, leadership, power, predominance |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | administration |
| Synonyms: | care, charge, control, direction, execution, guidance, handling, leadership, management, manipulation, organization, oversight, plan, policy, posture, red tape*, regimen, regulation, rule, running, strategy, supervision, tactics, transaction, treatment, carrying on, channels, intendance, superintendence, wielding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | direction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
| Synonyms: | administration, charge, command, control, government, guidance, leadership, order, oversight, supervision, superintendence |
| Main Entry: | lead |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first place, supremacy |
| Synonyms: | advance, advantage, ahead, bulge, cutting edge*, direction, edge, example, facade, guidance, head, heavy, leadership, margin, model, over, pilot, point, precedence, primacy, principal, priority, protagonist, spark, star, start, top, vanguard, front rank, title role, top spot |
| Antonyms: | last |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule, power |
| Synonyms: | ability, aplomb, authority, authorization, charge, coercion, compulsion, constraint, control, despotism, domination, dominion, expertise, government, grasp, grip, hold, jurisdiction, know-how*, leadership, management, might, prerogative, primacy, restraint, right, royalty, skill, sovereignty, supervision, supremacy, sway, tyranny, upper hand*, absolutism, expertism, expertness, strings |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
| Antonyms: | subordination |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | power |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | control, dominance |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authority, authorization, birthright, clout, command, connection, diadem, direction, domination, dominion, hegemony, influence, inside track*, jurisdiction, law, leadership, license, management, might, moxie*, omnipotence, predominance, prerogative, prestige, privilege, regency, right, rule, sovereignty, steam, strength, superiority, supremacy, sway, warrant, weight*, wire*, imperium, paramountcy, say-so, strings |
| Antonyms: | inefficiency, surrender, weakness, yielding, subservience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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