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manager
English
Etymology
manage +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?mæn.?.d??/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæn.?.d??/
- Hyphenation: man?a?ger
Noun
manager (plural managers)
- (management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "[1]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- And it was a fitting victory for Liverpool as Anfield celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of their legendary Scottish manager Bill Shankly.
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "[1]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- (baseball) The head coach.
- (music) An administrator, for a singer or group. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (computer software) A window or application whose purpose is to give the user the control over some aspect of the system.
- a file manager; a task manager; Program Manager
Synonyms
- (person who manages): administrator, boss, chief, controller, comptroller, foreman, head, head man, overseer, organizer, superintendent, supervisor
Derived terms
- line manager
- middle manager
- package manager
- player-manager
Descendants
Related terms
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English manager.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?.n?.d??r/
- Hyphenation: ma?na?ger
Noun
manager m (plural managers, diminutive managertje n)
- A manager, someone in management.
Derived terms
- interim-manager
French
Etymology
From English manager
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.na.d???/, /ma.na.d?œ?/
Noun
manager m (plural managers)
- (sports, Europe) manager
Synonyms
- (Quebec) gérant
Further reading
- “manager” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- magnera, mangera
Italian
Etymology
From English manager.
Noun
manager m (plural managers)
- (sports, business) manager
Anagrams
- magnare
- magnerà
- mangerà
Further reading
- manager in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??n?.d???r/
Noun
manager m pers (feminine managerka)
- (management) Alternative spelling of mened?er.
- (music) Alternative spelling of mened?er.
Declension
Derived terms
- (verb) managerowa?
- (noun) managerstwo
- (adjective) managerski
Related terms
- (adverb) managersko
Further reading
- manager in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- manager in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Noun
manager m (plural managers)
- Alternative form of mánager
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founder
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fa?nd?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fa?nd?/
- Rhymes: -a?nd?(?)
- Hyphenation: found?er
Etymology 1
From Old French fondeur, from Latin fund?tor.
Noun
founder (plural founders, feminine foundress)
- One who founds or establishes (especially said of a company, project, organisation, state)
- (genetics) Someone for whose parents one has no data.
Antonyms
- (one who founds): ruiner
Derived terms
- cofounder
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle French fondeur, from Latin fundo (“pour, melt, cast”)
Noun
founder (plural founders)
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 161.
- The term 'founder' was applied in the British iron industry long afterwards to the ironworker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 161.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
- a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or printing types
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle French fondrer (“send to the bottom”), from Latin fundus (“bottom”)
Noun
founder (plural founders)
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
Translations
Verb
founder (third-person singular simple present founders, present participle foundering, simple past and past participle foundered)
- (intransitive) Of a ship, to fill with water and sink.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- We were not much more than a quarter of an hour out of our ship but we saw her sink, and then I understood for the first time what was meant by a ship foundering in the sea.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- (intransitive) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (transitive, archaic, nautical) To cause to fill and sink, as a ship.
- 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, Volume I, page 82
- We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like to founder our Ship.
- 1744, William Smith, A New Voyage to Guinea, page 167, quoted in The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade, Robert Harms, 2008
- "I was amazed when we came among the breakers (which to me seemed large enough to founder our ship), to see with what wondrous dexterity they carried us through them, and ran their canoes on the top of one of those rolling waves […] "
- 1932, Hart Crane, "From haunts of Proserpine" (Review of Green River: A Poem for Rafinesque, James Whaler
- But still more disastrous was the storm which foundered his ship in Long Island Sound, swallowing within call of shore his fifty boxes of scientific equipment, his books, manuscripts and funds, the results of years of devoted labor.
- 1697, William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World, Volume I, page 82
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
Translations
Usage notes
Frequently confused with flounder. Both may be applied to the same situation, the difference is the severity of the action: floundering (struggling to maintain position) comes first, followed by foundering (losing it by falling, sinking or failing).
Anagrams
- Neudorf, fonduer, refound
Old French
Etymology
From Latin fund?.
Verb
founder
- (late Anglo-Norman) Alternative spelling of funder
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
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