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manager|ˈmænɪdʒə(r)|
Also 7 menager.
[f. manage v. + -er1.]
1. One who manages (something specified); † the wielder (of a weapon), † the person who wages (a war); the conductor (of an affair). Now rare in general sense: see 2, 3.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. ii. 188 Adue Valour, rust Rapier, bee still Drum, for your manager is in loue. 1590― Mids. N. v. i. 35 Where is our vsuall manager of mirth? What Reuels are in hand? 1598Florio, Maneggiatóre, a manager, a handler. 1612Bp. Hall Imprese of God ii. Wks. (1625) 452 Warre..hath..two directors—Iustice and Charity: Iustice, that requires both authoritie in the menager, and innocence in menaging. 1711Hickes Two Treat. Christ. Priesth. (1847) II. 16 The priest is the common manager..of sacred affairs betwixt God and the people.
2. Chiefly with qualifying adj.: One skilled in managing affairs, money, etc.
1670Cotton Espernon i. ii. 60 Her Estate therefore requir'd both a discreet manager to husband it, and a man well furnish'd with money, to disengage it. 1684Dk. York in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 330, I must recommend to you both to be good managers, and to be sure to live within what you have. 1710Steele Tatler No. 248 ⁋6 A Man of Business in good Company, who gives an Account of his Abilities..is hardly more insupportable than her they call a Notable Woman, and a Manager. 1728Young Love Fame vi. 181 Julia's a manager; she's born for rule; And knows her wiser husband is a fool. 1738Pope Epil. Sat. i. 21 An artful Manager, that crept between His Friend and Shame, and was a kind of Screen. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 2) 271 She is not what is called a good manager. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold ii, Everybody owned that she was a capital manager. 1884Leeds Mercury 30 Apr. 4/6 The government Whips..seem incapable of contending with the astute managers on the other side.
3. One whose office it is to manage a business establishment or a public institution.
Chiefly in certain specific applications: One who conducts a theatre or other place of amusement; one employed to take charge of the working of a bank, factory, mine, or other mercantile or industrial establishment, or of some particular department of such an establishment; one who has charge of the financial arrangements and the mechanical production of a newspaper, as distinguished from the matters which come within the province of the editor; a person, or one of a body of persons, responsible for the general working of a public institution.
1705Addison Italy 443 The Manager opens his Sluce every Night, and distributes the Water into what Quarters of the Town he pleases. 1741Richardson Pamela II. 341, I think, continued he, that little Kentish Purchase wants a Manager. 1764Oxf. Sausage 38 Some who of old could Tastes and Fashions guide, Controul the Manager and awe the Play'r. 1779Sheridan Critic i. i, Now that the manager has monopolized the Opera House, haven't we the signors and signoras calling here. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 173 Your physician has thought it his duty to propose to the [workhouse] managers, the vaccination of the whole number. 1840Carlyle Heroes iii. (1858) 269 This is our poor Warwickshire Peasant, who rose to be Manager of a Playhouse. 1863Fawcett Pol. Econ. i. vi. 77 In a joint-stock company, all depends upon the manager or agent. 1870Act 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75 §3 The term ‘managers’ includes all persons who have the management of any elementary school. 1885Mabel Collins Prettiest Woman viii, Then we can see the author, the manager.
4. One of several members of either house of parliament appointed for the performance of some specified duty connected with the functions of the two houses; esp. the arranging a conference between the two houses, and the presenting of articles of impeachment.
1666–7Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 209 We went up to the Lords to manage the impeachment against Lord Mordaunt. Our managers observed that he sat in the House. 1710[St. Leger] Managers Pro & Con (ed. 3) 4 To Him and to Me, He and the Council seem'd to be the Managers for the Pretender; and the Commons Managers seem'd only to be of Council for the Queen and the Nation. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 157 Mr. Walpole (afterwards Sir Robert) was one of the managers on this occasion. 1817Parl. Deb. 4 At the conference the managers for the Lords,..communicated to those for the Commons the Address just agreed to. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 277/2 The conference [between Lords and Commons] is conducted by ‘Managers’ for both houses. Ibid. 279/1 The managers should confine themselves to charges contained in the articles of impeachment. 1841Macaulay Ess., Warren Hastings (The Trial), The House decided that Francis should not be a manager... The managers, with Burke at their head, appeared in full dress... Nor, though surrounded by such men, did the youngest manager pass unnoticed. 1855― Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 124 Rochester, in the Painted Chamber, delivered to the managers of the Lower House a copy of the Treaty of Limerick. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. ix. 152 The number of members of the Commons named managers of a conference is double that of the Lords. Ibid. ii. vi. 471 For the prosecution of the trial managers are appointed by the House of Commons.
5. Law. A person appointed, ordinarily by a court of chancery, to control, carry on and account for any business which may have fallen into the hands of the court for the benefit of creditors or others: usually receiver and manager.
1793F. Vesey jr. Chancery Rep. I. 139 Motion for an order, that the manager of an estate in one of the West India islands should give security faithfully to manage the estate [etc.]. 1821Jacob & Walker's Chancery Rep. I. 299 Praying..that in the meantime a receiver and manager might be appointed. 1827F. Vesey jr. Chancery Rep. (ed. 2) XIX. 146 A Motion was made..for a reference to the Master to appoint a Manager and Receiver. 1880Law Rep. 14 Ch. Div. 645 This was a petition..praying for the appointment by the Court of a manager of the undertaking of the Manchester and Milford Railway. 1880Ibid. 655 When you come to give proper weight to..the ordinary course of the Court of Chancery in appointing a receiver as distinguished from a manager.
Sense 3 in Dict. become 3a Add: 3. b. One who manages or organizes the activities of a person or group of people, in the fields of sport and entertainment; spec., † the captain of a cricket team (Obs.). team manager: see team n. 11.
1843‘Wykhamist’ Pract. Hints Cricket p. vi, There should be one Captain, or Manager of the ‘field’, and one only. 1880N.Y. Herald 12 July 8/3 He was manager during 1879 of the Providence Club, which..is now flying the championship pennant of the League. 1885James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Compan. (ed. 41) 59 George Alexander.., the successful manager.., only played as an emergency. 1897N. Innes Ring Rec. & Fistic Facts I. 21 Mr. Tuohey has long been identified with boxers as backer and manager. 1946E. O'Neill Iceman Cometh i. 12 Dem tarts,..dey're just a side line to pick up some extra dough... Like dey was fighters and I was deir manager, see? 1969B. James England v. Scotland x. 217 Spurs manager Bill Nicholson has an interesting postscript to that decision. 1989Looks Dec. 102/4, I get on the blower to the press officers and managers and make sure that the acts arrive at the studio on time. |