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management - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | management |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persons running an organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, board, brass, executive, front office*, head, management, upstairs, bosses, directorate, directors, employers, execs, executive suite, executives, mainframe, micro management, person upstairs, top brass |
| Antonyms: | employees |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | management |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | running an organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, care, charge, command, conduct, control, direction, government, guidance, handling, manipulation, operation, oversight, rule, supervision, governance, intendance, superintendence, superintendency |
| Antonyms: | mismanagement |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bureaucracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system which controls organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, city hall*, government, management, ministry, red tape*, beadledom, civil service, directorate, officialdom, officials, powers that be, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
| Synonyms: | attention, care, control, custody, economy, governing, guardianship, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, protection, safekeeping, salvation, saving, storage, supervision, upkeep, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, directing, guarding, preserval, preserving, protecting, safeguarding, stewardship, supervising, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | destruction, neglect, waste, spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | control |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command, mastery |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authority, bridle, charge, check, clout, containment, curb, determination, direction, discipline, domination, dominion, driver's seat, force, government, guidance, inside track, juice, jurisdiction, limitation, management, manipulation, might, oversight, predomination, qualification, regimentation, regulation, restraint, restriction, ropes, rule, strings, subjection, subordination, superintendence, supervision, supremacy, sway, upper hand*, weight, wire pulling |
| Antonyms: | helplessness, powerlessness, relinquishment, renouncement, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dominion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of rule; authority |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authorization, bailiwick, command, commission, control, country, district, domain, dominance, domination, empire, field, government, jurisdiction, management, power, prerogative, privilege, property, province, realm, regency, regiment, regimentation, region, reign, rule, seniority, sovereignty, sphere, state, supremacy, sway, terrain, territory, turf, walk, demesne, enclave, preeminence, prepotence, prepotency, stomping grounds |
| Antonyms: | outside |
| Main Entry: | employer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, business who hires |
| Synonyms: | big shot*, boss, businessperson, capitalist, chief, company, corporation, director, entrepreneur, establishment, executive, firm, front office, head, juice*, management, manager, manufacturer, meal ticket*, organization, outfit, overseer, owner, patron, president, proprietor, superintendent, supervisor, CEO, CO, head honcho, kingpin, slavedriver, workers big cheese |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | housework |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleaning, maintaining a home |
| Synonyms: | administration, cooking, domestic science, home economics, housekeeping, management, sewing, sweeping, washing, bed-making, domestic art, dusting, homemaking, housecraft, ironing, laundering, mopping, stewardship |
| 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: | policy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | procedure, tactics |
| Synonyms: | action, administration, approach, arrangement, behavior, code, course, custom, design, guideline, line, management, method, order, organization, plan, practice, program, protocol, red tape*, rule, scheme, stratagem, strategy, tenet, theory, channels, polity, the book, the numbers |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | production |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creating of goods, result |
| Synonyms: | assembly, bearing, blossoming, construction, creation, direction, fabrication, generation, giving, making, management, manufacture, manufacturing, origination, preparation, presentation, producing, provision, reproduction, return, yielding, authoring, elongation, engendering, extention, formulation, fructification, lengthening, prolongation, protraction, rendering, staging |
| Antonyms: | destruction, ruin |
| Main Entry: | red tape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bureaucratic rules |
| Synonyms: | City Hall, authority, bureaucracy, city hall*, government, management, bureaucratic paperwork, official forms, official procedures, officialdom, officialism, paper shuffling, powers that be, proper channels, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | regime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leadership of organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, dynasty, establishment, government, management, pecking order*, reign, rule, system, tenure, incumbency |
| Notes: | a regime is the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; a regiment is an army unit smaller than a division |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | usage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | habit, custom |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, control, convention, currency, form, formula, handling, management, matter of course, method, mode, operation, practice, praxis, procedure, regime, regulation, rote, routine, rule, running, tradition, treatment, trick, use, way, wont, habitude |
| Main Entry: | white-collar worker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonmanual worker |
| Synonyms: | management, career woman, clerical worker, office worker, professional worker, salaried workers, skilled worker |
| 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: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
| Synonyms: | aegis, auspices, care, conservation, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, ward, watch, custodianship, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, wardship |
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