Manager

Part of speech: noun

Pronunciation: /ˈmæn.ɪ.d͡ʒə/

Definitions

1. A person who oversees and directs the operations, activities, or performance of a business, organization, department, or group of employees
2. An individual responsible for planning, organizing, and coordinating various tasks to ensure efficiency in a team or organization
3. A professional who supervises staff and operations while managing resources and strategies for achieving organizational goals

Etymology: The word "manage" arrived in English from Italian, not Latin, and its path ran through horsemanship. Its ancestor is Italian "maneggiare", meaning to handle or train horses, from Latin "manus" (hand). Medieval Latin spread the idea of handling and training through Old French "manège", a riding school, and English borrowed the sense of controlling a horse before extending it to controlling anything at all. The notion of guiding a horse with the hands gradually widened into guiding affairs, money and people. "Manager" itself is a plain English formation: "manage" with the agent suffix "-er", which English has attached to native and borrowed verbs since Old English times. The word therefore names someone who handles things, and it carries the original image of hands on the reins.

Synonyms: administrator, supervisor, director

Antonyms: subordinate, employee, worker