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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Management \Man"age*ment\, noun [From {Manage}, v.]
1. The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of a business enterprise; the management of state affairs. ''The management of the voice.'' --E. Porter.
2. Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.
He had great managements with ecclesiastics. --Addison.
3. Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.
Mark with what management their tribes divide Some stick to you, and some to t'other side. --Dryden.
4. The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.
Syn: Conduct; administration; government; direction; guidance; care; charge; contrivance; intrigue.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
management
noun
1: the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?" [syn: {direction}]
2: those in charge of running a business
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
229 Moby Thesaurus words for "management": accomplishment, achievement, acme, action, administration, agency, archon, auspices, austerity, austerity program, authority, authorization, be-all and end-all, blue ribbon, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, bosses, bureaucracy, cabinet, cadre, canniness, care, carefulness, championship, chancellor, charge, chariness, chief executive, chief executive officer, civil government, command, commission, completion, conduct, control, council, cure, custodianship, custody, dean, directing, direction, directorate, directors, directorship, directory, discharge, discipline, dispatch, dispensation, disposition, dominion, driving, economic planning, economicalness, economy, economy of means, effectiveness, effectuation, empery, empire, employment, enactment, execution, executive, executive arm, executive committee, executive director, executive hierarchy, executive officer, executive secretary, executives, exercise, exploitation, false economy, first place, first prize, forehandedness, form of government, frugality, frugalness, functioning, good management, governance, governing board, governing body, government, guardianship, guidance, handling, hands, headship, hegemony, height, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, highest, husbandry, imperium, implementation, influence, infrastructure, intendance, interlocking directorate, jurisdiction, keeping, kingship, lead, leadership, leading, lordship, magistrate, managery, managing, managing director, manipulation, mastership, mastery, maximum, means of dealing, ministry, most, ne plus ultra, new high, occupation, officer, official, officialdom, operancy, operation, ordering, oversight, palms, paramountcy, parsimoniousness, parsimony, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, performance, performing, perpetration, pilotage, political organization, polity, power, practice, prefect, prelacy, presidency, president, prexy, primacy, protectorship, providence, provost, prudence, prudential administration, record, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, reign, responsibility, rule, ruling class, ruling classes, running, safe hands, say, secretary, sovereignty, sparingness, steerage, steering, steering committee, stewardship, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, supremacy, sway, system of government, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the brass, the conn, the executive, the helm, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, the wheel, them, they, thrift, thriftiness, tight purse strings, top brass, top spot, transaction, treasurer, treatment, tutelage, unwastefulness, usage, using, utilization, vice-chancellor, vice-president, ward, warden, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, wing, work, working, workings, zenith
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
management n.
1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also {suit}). Spoken derisively, as in "_Management_ decided that ...". 2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed 'The Mgt'; this derives from the "Illuminatus" novels (see the {Bibliography} in Appendix C).
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
management
1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also {suit}). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...". 2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed "The Mgt"; this derives from the "Illuminatus!" novels. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-28)
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