different between manager vs governor

English

Etymology

manage +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæn.?.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæn.?.d??/
• Hyphenation: man?a?ger

Noun

manager (plural managers)

1. (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.

2. (baseball) The head coach.
3. (music) An administrator, for a singer or group. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. (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)

1. 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)

1. (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)

1. (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)

1. (management) Alternative spelling of mened?er.
2. (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)

1. Alternative form of mánager

English

Alternative forms

• gouernour, gouvernor, gouvernour, governer, governour (all obsolete)
• guvnah, guvnuh (both informal)

Etymology

From Middle English governour, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernator, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kubern?t?s, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from ???????? (kuberná?, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”), of disputed origin. Doublet of gubernator.

Pronunciation

• (UK, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v(?)n?(?)/
• (US, rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v??n??/
• (US, non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /???v?n?(?)/
• (US, rhotic, r-dissimilation) IPA^(key): /???v?n??/

Noun

governor (plural governors, feminine governess)

1. (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.
   • 1999, Karen O'Connor, The essentials of American government: continuity and change, p 17

     Younger voters are more libertarian in political philosophy than older voters and are credited with the success of libertarian governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota

2. A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
3. A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
   • Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, www.federalreserve.gov (November 6, 2009)

     The seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.

4. (informal) Father.
5. (informal) Boss, employer.
6. (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
7. (dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
8. (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.

Synonyms

• (head of a province): viceroy (of large divisions of a kingdom or empire); proconsul (of Roman regions, historical); bailiff, seneschal, intendant (of French regions, historical); tao tai (obsolete), circuit intendant, intendant, daotai (of Chinese regions, historical); provost (obsolete); gubernator (now humorous)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Middle English

Noun

governor

1. Alternative form of governour