management

Other forms of management

plural

managements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about management

What does management mean?

management means "the act of managing something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in management?

management has 3 syllables: manag-e-ment. The stress falls on "manag". In IPA it is /ˈmænədʒmənt/.

What is another word for management?

Close synonyms include direction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is management a common word?

management is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.