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# manager

«manager» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who is in charge of a shop, business, team of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a manager, managers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A manager is a person who is in charge of a shop, business, team of workers or project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/#m1)

2) A manager is the person in charge of a sports team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you can ask to speak to the manager if something is wrong in a shop. In football the manager chooses the team. In maths money problems a manager pays workers or orders stock. Phrases: shop manager, team manager, ask for the manager.

### examples

- The manager said sorry for the mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/#x1)
- My aunt is the manager of a bakery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/#x2)
- The football manager picked the team for Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/#x3)
- Ask the manager if we can get a refund. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/#x4)
- The manager ordered 50 boxes of crisps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/#x5)
- She was promoted to manager. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/#x6)

### note

Countable. Verb: manage; noun: management. Starts with M, not «manger» (an animal feeding box) — a common spelling slip.

### In the corpora

- [For example, "We are streamlining the team" from a manager usually means some people are about to lose their jobs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/20-debt-and-jobs/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «manager» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manager/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.