1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit ). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...".
2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed "The Mgt"; this derives from the "Illuminatus!" novels.
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(1995-02-28)