managementn.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 456 They say too, that he [sc. the Duke of Savoy] had great Managements with several Ecclesiasticks before he turn'd Hermite.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 346 Yet, while he made a base complying speech in favour of the Court, and of the war, he was in a secret management with another party.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 189 He was a very prudent man; and had such a management with it, that I never knew any Clergy-man so universally esteemed.

1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 53 The argument was conducted with great management and address.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. iii. iii. 346 If you have management enough to worm yourself into his confidence.

1727 J. Oldmixon Clarendon & Whitlock Compar'd vi. 326 Decency seem'd to require a little more Management, considering he [sc. Clarendon] was Cromwell's profess'd Enemy.

a1743 Ld. Hervey Mem. Reign George II (1848) (modernized text) II. 257 He feared..lest the King and Queen, who hated their son..might construe it to be a management for their son in Sir Robert Walpole, and never forgive it him.

a1743 Ld. Hervey Mem. Reign George II (1848) (modernized text) II. 291 Sir Robert..thought their suspicions of his having had any management or tenderness towards their son were most unjust.

1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto iii The herald, who with so little management had questioned the title of Manfred.

1771 E. Burke Let. to C. Townshend in Corr. (1844) I. 268 When I have any thing to object to persons in power,..I use no sort of managements towards them.

1781 H. Walpole Let. 11 Feb. in Corr. (1971) XXV. 124 I care not a rush for his fortune; but I will not part with my character, which I prefer to all he has; and had much rather lose the former, were it likely to come to me, than the latter. Indeed it is proof I do, when I keep no management with those wretches who entirely possess him.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iii. 110 Suraja Dowla..was too ignorant and headstrong to use management with his dislikes.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber x. 193 Drury-Lane, under a particular Menagement.

1839 New World 26 Oct. 3/3 Will not the ‘Management’ of the Park Theatre next give orders to the door-keepers [etc.].

1864 Morning Star 26 May 4 These ‘authorised offices’ do not profess to be ‘authorised’ by the management.

1885 Q. Rev. Oct. 455 All the money staked is divided between the backers of the winning horse, less ten per cent, which is the profit of the management.

1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 201 There are many necessary outlays which the management of the paper would not pay.

1940 W. Temple Hope of New World i. 61 If there is to be tension at all, let it be between the financial interests of Shareholders and the productive interests of Management and Labour in co-operation.

1965 H. I. Ansoff Corporate Strategy (1968) i. 20 Management from top to bottom continually seeks to improve efficiency, to cut costs, to sell more, to advertise better.

1976 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 15 Dec. i. 9/4 Transport and General Workers' Union officials want round-the-table talks with the management.

1991 Afr. Affairs 90 62/1 Members..can make their views known to the Management.

1860 W. Collins Woman in White in All Year Round 5 May 77/1 After giving us some useful directions about the management of the patient,..the physician withdrew to consult in private with Mr. Dawson.

1946 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 62 65/1 Benadryl and..Pyribenzamine..have proven effective in..the management of some allergic conditions in man.

1978 Brit. Heart Jrnl. 40 581/1 The surgical approach to management of intractable tachyarrhythmias in the Wolff–Parkinson–White (WPW) syndrome..relies upon correct assessment and permanent disruption of abnormal atrioventricular muscular connections.

1993 Harper's Mag. Dec. 24/2 One study found that a third of physicians and nurses involved in the management of ‘brain-dead’ patients considered them to be, in fact, alive.

1893 Econ. Jrnl. 3 22 The following is a list of the popularly managed institutions in two favourable instances:..Technical Classes Committee, Allotments Management Committee, [etc.].

1996 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 7 May (Business & Finance Suppl.) 10/3 The members of management committees..must be people who understand ideals and operations of co-operatives.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Oct. 563/4 There is infinitely more formal training in management than before, and ‘management consultancy’ has expanded rapidly since the war.

1995 Marketing 6 Apr. 18/2 Mark Hudson is the second person in the space of four weeks to jump ship from the comparative safety of management consultancy and plunge into the choppy waters of marketing.

1935 Manhattan Classified Telephone Directory 468/1 (heading) Management Consultants... Dezutter, Michael L. Managers, Consultants, Clubs, Hotels, Restaurants 122 E 42d.

1938 Jrnl. Business Univ. Chicago 11 221 In general, the principal users of management consultants' services are the active managers of the business.

1994 Amer. Spectator Apr. 66/3 In a market economy it is bankers, ad executives, and management consultants who are masters of the universe.

1921 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 29 426 Paper: General Aspects of the Curriculum, by Hollis Godfrey, Council of Management Education.

1965 New Statesman 19 Nov. 785/1 Shortage of teaching staff..led the group (eventually formally constituted as the Foundation for Management Education) to raise a little money to encourage a few modest experiments in a number of universities.

1991 Christian Sci. Monitor 1 Nov. 8/2 We're at the beginning of a major sea-change in management education, says Bill Laidlaw, executive vice president of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business.

1871 S. S. Colt Tourist's Guide Empire State 217 Twenty-five years' management expenses..$5,560,750.

1900 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 29 680 What are called the Standing or Stand-by Charges. Other items which might fairly be added to the stand-by charges are the rent, rates and taxes, and part of the management expenses.

1993 P. C. Soares Non-resident Trusts (ed. 4) (BNC) 22 They cannot obtain a deduction for management expenses from that basic rate tax charge.

1958 Harvard Business Rev. July 160/1 One generalized management game has training in top-level decision making as its major objective.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. x. 133 There has been a swing away from traditional teaching methods towards group discussion, joint report-writing by syndicates, case-studies and the management game.

1954 Amer. Econ. Rev. 44 1030 A new national society, the Institute of Management Sciences, has been established with the objective of unifying scientific knowledge that contributes to the understanding and practice of management. The Institute will publish a journal, Management Science.

1955 H. Koontz & C. O'Donnell Princ. Managem. i. i. 11 Extension of the frontiers of management science by increasing the efficiency of management, would unquestionably have revolutionary impact on the cultural level of our society.

1969 Times 2 May 34 (advt.) Post-graduate studentships in management sciences.

1984 H. Judge Generation of Schooling (BNC) The language of management science supplanted simpler models of leadership or autonomy.

1900 Daily News 20 Nov. 2/3 The existing 200 one pound management shares would be divided into a thousand 4s. management shares.

1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 14/3 Nothing is being paid on the £25,000 of management shares, as against 6 per cent. last time.

1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 Feb. b6 (advt.) An outstanding opportunity exists for a proven manager to join a new management team.

1982 A. Alexander Local Govt. in Brit. since Reorganization iv. 75 The degree to which a chief executive provides leadership depends on..the form of decision-making within the management team.

1995 Private Eye 27 Jan. 6/3 The college's management team then devised a brilliant wheeze to get round the cut: 150 members of staff are to be made redundant.

1952 Accountant 8 Nov. 559/1 It was not always easy for the management accountant to take over, especially in the more conservative type of firm.

1980 B. Murphy Managem. Accounting (ed. 2) i. 14 The management accountant deals woth the present and the future rather than the past.

1996 Independent 3 Apr. ii. 17/1 The rise of the management accountant—who can now use the coveted ‘chartered’ designation—has added to the pressure on the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

1922 H. W. Quaintance (title) Managerial accounting.]

1950 Accountant 22 Apr. 434/1 The management accounting team..has a clear practical objective: to find out the American ‘know-how’ on the presentation and use of what may be loosely termed ‘control figures’.

1992 Accountancy Sept. 65 For management accounting functions AEI uses Lotus 1-2-3.

1948 Economist 24 July 147/1 On each supervisory board five out of eleven members represent the workers' interests... On the management boards, one is a technician, one a commercial expert, and one a labour representative.

1992 Independent 21 Feb. 21/4 The supervisory board of the sports car maker Porsche is against extending the contract of Arno Bohn, the current management board chairman, after 1992.

1986 Daily Express 8 Nov. 31/4 Philip Ling and Schroeders have come up with an unique ‘management buy-in’ to wrest control from Simon's existing board.

1993 Scotsman 19 Feb. 17/6 The strategy he has followed since the £310 million management buy-in of Woolworth in 1982 has turned the renamed Kingfisher group into a British success story.

1977 Business Periodicals Index 18 294 (heading) Making two out of one (management buyouts).

1985–6 Sight & Sound Winter 13/3 Chief Executive Gary Dartnall goes about trying to raise the cash for a management buy-out.

1992 Investors Chron. 23 Oct. 34/2 An offspring of the National Bus Company, deregulation of the industry in the 1980s improved the quality and competitiveness of National Express's services and led to a management buy-out in 1988.

1966 Datamation Feb. 43 (advt.) How goes your management information system? About to become unglued by the whole GIGO process?

1993 UNIX World May 46/2 When commercially viable X Windows technology emerged..it was widely perceived as being..expensive to implement for corporate management information systems.