# manager

Pronunciation: US say "MAN-uh-jur" /ˈmæn.ə.d͡ʒɚ/; UK say "MAN-i-juh" /ˈmæn.ɪ.d͡ʒə/

## Noun

1. A person in charge of running a business, shop, department or sports team, responsible for how it works and performs.
   - Simple: Someone who runs a business or part of one, or who is in charge of a sports team.
   - _The manager approved the new budget after reviewing each department's request._
   - _Restaurant managers handle scheduling, supplies, and customer complaints every day._
2. A person who handles the business affairs and career of a performer or athlete, such as a singer, band, actor or boxer, on that client's behalf.
   - Simple: A person who runs the business side of a singer's, actor's or sports star's career.
   - _The singer's manager negotiated a recording deal with a major label._
   - _Band managers often take a percentage of their clients' earnings._
3. An application or window designed to let the user control a particular part of the computer system.
   - Simple: A program or window that lets you control one part of your computer.
   - _The package manager downloaded and installed every dependency automatically._
   - _When the screen froze, she opened the task manager and shut down the program that had stopped responding._

## Origin

Formed from the verb "manage" combined with the suffix "-er", meaning one who manages.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/manager (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).