noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bank manager
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Could I make an appointment with the bank manager, please?
a business manager
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We need to take on a business manager to deal with some of the admin.
a campaign manager (= for a political campaign )
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She's a campaign manager for Amnesty International.
a department manager (= in a company )
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After two years, he was promoted to the job of department manager.
a factory manager
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He held the position of factory manager.
a football manager
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Football managers shouldn't complain about referees' decisions.
a project manager/leader
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The project manager is responsible for sorting this out.
a restaurant owner/manager
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He worked as a restaurant manager at Mario's Pizzas for 10 years.
a senior manager
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She's now a senior manager for a large toy company.
bank manager
branch manager
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Have you met our branch manager , Mr. Carlson?
corporate executives/managers (= who work for big companies )
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highly paid corporate executives
general manager
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the general manager
line manager
make it to manager/director etc
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How did anyone so stupid make it to manager?
road manager
stage manager
the team manager/coach
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Who do you think will be the next England team manager?
trainee manager/solicitor/teacher etc
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a trainee hairdresser
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
assistant
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The council, however, included San Diego assistant city manager Penelope Culbreth-Graft among six finalists.
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Wimbledon's hard man ran across the pitch to point threateningly at Middlesbrough assistant manager John Pickering.
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He took all meals in his room, owed money to the hotel, expected a visit from an assistant manager .
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Also, I'd make arrangements with your assistant manager to cover for Michael long-term.
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Employment Hotel managers and assistant managers held about 105, 000 wage and salary jobs in 1994.
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He had been promised that once he had obtained his colliery manager's certificate, he would be made an assistant manager.
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Phil Arnold, assistant general manager of the Recreation and Park Department, said the 49ers had agreed to the terms.
general
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From a general manager at M &038; S regarding the Retail Cleaning.
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In many hotels, the general manager also serves as the resident manager.
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Timothy Melgund, currently general manager of cards, news and Paperchase, will now also be responsible for stationery.
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Webber now hangs out and delights diners with Gump impersonations, said general manager Dave Trombetta.
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Fisher and general manager Floyd Reese have been careful not to criticize the fans or the city.
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His teammates, for example, and his coaches and general manager and a healthy segment of fans in the Bay Area.
middle
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A cull of 1,000 middle managers should lop a further £225m off costs.
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They also developed a plan to expose the statement through discussions with three or four groups of middle level managers at Mega.
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The National Economic Development Office estimates that four percent of middle and senior managers are women.
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The work of middle managers and a focus on function remain unchanged.
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In an extreme case, she guided one middle manager who was going through mid-life swerve into working at a zoo.
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At some point, corporations will be hiring, rather than firing, middle managers .
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And unfortunately for middle managers , the encroachment of technology has coincided with a less autocratic approach to management.
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Terribly talented people often have little tolerance for less talented middle managers .
new
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He's the new manager of that electronic factory in Tryford.
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The new managers knew that their key to success was learning how to learn from experience.
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With a new manager came a change in emphasis and a renovation programme was commenced, starting with car 250 in 1955.
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And like the new managers , the subordinates had advocated a rather one-sided view of those interface obligations.
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Hull are set to name their new manager at a press conference this morning.
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In addition to the A&R department's other duties, we also teach and help new , inexperienced managers who bring acts to us.
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When they were feeling more magnanimous, the new managers defined administration as a secondary, yet essential, managerial function.
senior
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Plans prepared using agreed criteria are then approved by the relevant senior managers .
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I asked to join the group and invited other senior managers to work with us.
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The following interview extract vividly illustrates the perceived difference, in the eyes of one senior manager in an acute unit.
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For example, some senior managers of flexible organizations could establish explicit reward structures that extend beyond normal business cycles.
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Colleagues presented him with video editing equipment which was handed over by Michael Larkin, senior manager in Research Group.
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The senior and middle managers whose salaries contributed heavily to the top-heavy cost structure that ostensibly prohibited competitive pricing?
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The survey analysed nearly 21,000 salaries of senior managers to supervisors at more than 900 companies with a total workforce of 824,000.
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At the weekend senior managers expressed optimism about the future.
■ NOUN
bank
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A third reason is that some bank managers feel threatened by a measure which could prove embarrassing.
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Most people think at once of their bank manager .
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Even the bank manager takes participation in the project into account when considering loans to co-operatives.
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He gets cold feet and phones his bank manager asking him to stop the cheque.
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The lock-manufacturer fixed the combination, and he has told the bank manager .
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It is what do I sell to pay off my bank manager and my creditors?
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She didn't think her bank manager would be very pleased if she ran over her credit card limit as well.
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Failure to warn your bank manager in advance will result in even steeper charges.
branch
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This observation was made by a new branch manager in a securities firm.
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The branch manager will ensure that the query is investigated objectively and hopefully be able to resolve the matter to your satisfaction.
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New branch managers were generally promoted from the ranks for competence and achievements as individual contributors.
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Chris Barnes branch manager at Chelmsford realised that there was only one thing to do, send for surveyor Bruce Jones-Walker.
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He decided to find out more about the branch manager opportunity, and eventually chose to pursue it.
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One of the main jobs of the unit is to advise branch managers about technical projects that are worth backing.
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I realize now that when I accepted the position of branch manager that it is truly an exciting vocation.
business
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On Sunday, Lewis's business manager Adrian Ogun said the two camps were ready to start negotiating for a summer fight.
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However, one business manager said Tucson companies could cope with the increase.
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Oaklands Chris McLean, Newham's business manager , is now head of information, communications and learning technology.
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Of those questioned, 45% thought that experienced business managers could help them with future strategic decisions.
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Connecting a business plan and a business manager to each editorial section is alarming.
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Information technology professionals, however, feel that business managers have no understanding of, or interest in, technology.
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The business managers or the section editors?
campaign
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But according to his campaign manager Mr Brian Fisk, it's all much closer to home than it was in 1966.
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Buchanan is his own speech writer and ideas man; his sister Bay is campaign manager .
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But the Lexington goes to Bay Buchanan, sister and campaign manager of Pat, for her low-budget bravado.
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He had a campaign manager , banners, palm cards, even musical groups singing for him.
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Smith's campaign manager , Robin Cook, appears confident that his candidate will come round to endorsing electoral reform.
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Brown campaign manager Jack Davis called the resume item a lie.
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The President took a call from Sig Beller, our campaign manager .
city
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Last Sunday the Leicester City manager agreed to become caretaker national coach for the friendly in Turin.
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Clark was forced to resign June 18 after eight years as city manager .
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For budget-minded city managers , however, such attractions are serious business.
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Gunnarson, 54, was an assistant city manager in charge of redevelopment.
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Ted Gaebler, then city manager of Visalia, brought it to Visalia six months later.
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He has also worked as city manager and assistant city manager in Kalamazoo, Mich.
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In a 21-year career as city manager , Uberuaga said he has worked with 45 different council members and 16 mayors.
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She came to work for McGrory about 15 months ago from Tucson, Ariz., where she was assistant city manager .
fund
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Most fund managers believed it was too early to say when they would consider buying London shares again.
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Nearly 20 fund managers and analysts have resigned over the last 12 months, including some major stars.
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One course of action fund managers are likely to pursue is to introduce more funds which combine gilts with high yielding equities.
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This year, many fund managers say, the pessimists could be right and the markets could take a dive.
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Investors who do their own research and then go directly to the fund manager of the choice must still pay the charge.
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Since then, Fidelity has banned its fund managers from making any comments about stocks.
line
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One passionate advocate of appraisals is Canon Hardaker, whose lucid guidelines should be compulsory reading for many a line manager .
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The winning coalition of line managers would become prophetic as they were to become more dominant in subsequent meetings.
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Half the line managers interviewed thought Opportunity 2000 had been communicated ineffectively or not at all.
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They fail to court line managers in the operating groups who make the major decisions.
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Your line manager will also discuss and agree realistic objectives with you.
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What do staff and line managers expect from an organization?
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During the time they have off they are kept in touch with what is going on at work by their line manager .
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Nate Cocello allowed a knowing smile to cross his face at what he knew would be the natural reactions of line managers .
marketing
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It survived and is still trading but Gilbey now works from his Norfolk home as marketing manager for Team Lotus.
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According to regional marketing manager David Asquith the contract was clinched in the face of stiff competition.
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I discovered later he was the marketing manager of a company that sold agricultural fertiliser.
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There is another way of viewing Levitt's arguments; the relative importance of between-country and within-country differences to the marketing manager .
money
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Thus bank money managers and corporate treasurers readily switch funds between the internal and external dollar markets.
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In particular, money managers will be asked to show greater willingness to support venture capital projects and start-up enterprises.
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Some professional money managers may know instinctively when to add to or subtract from their stockholdings.
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Still, money managers , analysts, and economists are taking their best educated guesses.
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In the case of the second investor, our model reproduces the tax-based investment strategy offered by numerous money managers .
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Some individual money managers made news in 1995.
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Suppose you have a money manager with a talent for finding beaten-up companies with hidden value.
portfolio
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What price would the portfolio manager be prepared to pay for these shares given a holding period of 5 years? 3.
project
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He has 25 years' experience as a project manager and architectural technologist.
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Tom Wesolowski was recently hired by Advanced Engineering to serve as a project manager in the Moorhead office.
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Then I became a lead project manager and, I have to say, I was a good one.
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How does the project manager organize and supervise the people in the team?
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Women are excluded very subtly, said Dawn Fisher, project manager for the Catalyst survey.
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The skills of our project managers have shortened construction time by 12 weeks compared with five years ago.
stage
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Next morning the stage manager took great pleasure in informing them they had been to a women-only club.
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Making Alvin the stage manager was the first step, she believed, in involving him in something outside of class work.
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For a company of our size to tour without a stage manager and only one technician is a nightmare.
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He is also a founder member and stage manager of the Calder Valley Junior theatre Society.
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He had become a stage manager and officer of the Minnehaha Minstrels.
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John, the stage manager , went with her to the X-ray department.
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Mr Mates was the efficient stage manager of Michael Heseltine's almost successful bid for the premiership.
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Well, we know the importance of assistant stage managers , because where would we be without the tea?
■ VERB
become
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Who did Joe Torre replace when he became YankeesU manager at the start of the 1996 season? 9.
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After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989.
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Some scientists and engineers become managers in marketing, personnel, purchasing, or other areas or become general managers.
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In 1882 Churchward became assistant carriage-works manager at Swindon and manager in 1885.
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Adrienne became the manager for the Garland Trio.
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He hasn't become a bad manager overnight.
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The singer, her darker side flaring up, demanded that Ruth give up her other clients and become her personal manager .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acting manager/head teacher/director etc
assistant manager/director/cook etc
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Employment Hotel managers and assistant managers held about 105, 000 wage and salary jobs in 1994.
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He started at the Town House in 1991, working as assistant manager from 1997 to 1999.
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He worked his way up from kitchen porter, assistant cook, employment at a casino and by painting and decorating.
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Hotel managers and assistant managers strive to ensure their guests will have a pleasant stay.
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One of his teammates will be former Darlington assistant manager Tony McAndrew.
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She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King.
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The, the, the late director was pushed and knocked down I guess when he was assistant director.
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West Ham's assistant manager Harry Redknapp has been another victim of a fans' fit-up.
be made up to captain/manager etc
caretaker manager/government/boss etc
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A caretaker boss is expected to be named today.
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A player representation, led by caretaker manager Edwin Stein, received a rapturous welcome.
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All three parties undertook to support the caretaker government until the elections.
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And caretaker boss Barrow said he was a little disappointed at not taking three points!
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In the meantime, his assistant, Mr Ronnie Moran, would act as caretaker manager.
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The caretaker government had earlier introduced new laws increasing the penalties for election offences.
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They sought extra-parliamentary means to oust Chavalit, establish a caretaker government and hold a new election.
sb's line manager
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All these convey an organisational unit headed by a line manager.
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One passionate advocate of appraisals is Canon Hardaker, whose lucid guidelines should be compulsory reading for many a line manager.
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Your line manager will also discuss and agree realistic objectives with you.
the retiring president/manager/director etc
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Finally, on November 24, he took over the reins of the Puzzle Palace from the retiring director.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All new loans must be approved by the bank manager .
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He is general manager of operations for three health clubs.
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He was a manager for Safeway Stores before leaving to start his own business.
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I'd like to see the manager please.
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If the sales clerk cannot help you, ask to see the manager .
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McBride was a general manager in charge of research and development.
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Notify your line manager if you are ill.
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Ron was promoted to branch manager of the North West region.
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She's one of our regional sales managers.
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the manager of the Boston Red Sox
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the advertising manager of a mail-order company
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White was later a store manager for Safeway Stores.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And now Cambridge United, who recently sacked controversial manager John Beck, have made the first move.
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Even corporate bonds, which in particular started the year out of favor among money managers, had a good year.
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Few theatre managers understood the nature of the gases which they handled.
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Finally, the managers had difficulty confronting the possibility that, in part, they might be the source of the problem.
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I have all these new managers, all these intellectuals.
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Senior managers concerned with efficiency often try to reduce the substitutability of other departments below them.
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These activities would include the appointment of case managers for individuals such as the vulnerable elderly when it was appropriate. 2.
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Visalia had adopted a radically new budget system, which allowed managers to respond quickly as circumstances changed.