Management is the study and practice of running organisations and people. Study management, a management course, the management team.
With the, the management means the people in charge, and it takes a plural verb in British English: the management are aware. Management by objectives, middle management and management consultant are standard phrases. In medicine, management means the ongoing handling of a condition rather than its cure — pain management, disease management. Note manage, manager and manageable.
1nounmanagementThe study and practice of running organisations.
“She studied management and learned most of it on the job.”
2nounchargeThe people in charge of an organisation.
“The management has decided to close the factory on Fridays.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
management is a running of things.
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From manage + -ment. manage comes from Middle English manage, from Old French manege, from roa-oit maneggiare. From en-ear manage, menage, from Middle English manage, menage, from Old French manege (“the handling or training of a horse, horsemanship, riding, maneuvers, proceedings”), probably from roa-oit maneggiare (“to handle, manage, touch, treat”), from Vulgar Latin manizāre (“handle”), from Latin manus (“hand”) + -izō. a doublet of manège. Compare typologically handle; руководи́ть (< рука́).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA