manager

Other forms of manager

plural

managers·

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 manager

What does manager mean?

manager means "someone who controls resources and expenditures". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manager?

manager has 3 syllables: man-a-ger. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmænədʒɚ/.

What is another word for manager?

Close synonyms include director, managing director, coach, handler. 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 manager a common word?

manager is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.