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General Manager

Definition: General Manager

General Manager

Noun

1. The highest ranking manager.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: General Manager

DomainDefinitions

Economics

Will have total responsibility for growth and profitability, with emphasis. . on the introduction of financial planning and control systems and the improvement of costing techniques. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: General Manager

English words defined with "general manager": Do-all. (references)
Specialty definitions using "general manager": GENERAL MANAGER, FARM, general manager, land department, GENERAL MANAGER, ROAD PRODUCTION, General Sales Manager, GSMland department head, land-and-leases supervisor, lease agent, leases-and-land supervisor, lion foodmanager, land department, MANAGER, LEASING, MANAGER, STATION, mine foremansmoke and mirrors, superintendent, land department. (references)

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Modern Usage: General Manager

DomainUsage

Screenplays

As General Manager of this team, I demand to know when I'm getting a start. (Major League II; writing credit: David S. Ward; R.J. Stewart)

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Commercial Usage: General Manager

DomainTitle

Books

  • Branch Rickey in Pittsburgh: Baseball's Trailblazing General Manager for the Pirates, 1950-1955 (reference)

  • Human Resource Strategy: A Behavioral Perspective for the General Manager (reference)

  • Innovation and the General Manager (reference)

  • Project Management for the General Manager (reference)

  • Strategy Formulation and Implementation: Tasks of the General Manager (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: General Manager

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Sponsor's party at the ship's launching, at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, 16 April 1944. The sponsor, Mrs. C.L. Duvall, is in the right foreground. She was the mother of Lieutenant C.G. Duvall, USAAC, who had recently been killed in the crash of a bomber. Also present are (from left to right): H.C. Brogan, Vice President and General Manager, Kewaunee Shipbuilding & Engineering Corporation; C.L. Duvall, Mayor of Kewaunee, Wisc.; and The Reverend L.A. Spooner, of the Kewaunee Congregational Church, who delivered the invocation at the ceremonies. FP-344 was later renamed FS-344. Transferred to the Navy in 1966, she became USS Pueblo (AGER-2).Credit: NAVY.

Sponsor's party at the ship's launching, at Kewaunee, Wisconsin, 16 April 1944. The sponsor, Mrs. C.L. Duvall, is in the right foreground. She was the mother of Lieutenant C.G. Duvall, USAAC, who had recently been killed in the crash of a bomber. Also present are (from left to right): H.C. Brogan, Vice President and General Manager, Kewaunee Shipbuilding & Engineering Corporation; C.L. Duvall, Mayor of Kewaunee, Wisc.; and The Reverend L.A. Spooner, of the Kewaunee Congregational Church, who delivered the invocation at the ceremonies. FP-344 was later renamed FS-344. Transferred to the Navy in 1966, she became USS Pueblo (AGER-2).Credit: NAVY.

General manager of the Dairymen's Cooperative Creamery. Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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Non-Fiction Usage: General Manager

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

U.S. jeep type vehicles have one major advantage and one major disadvantage according to the general manager of one U.S. import company in Athens. (references)

The Commercial Bank of Greece in particular has shown interest in becoming active in the development of franchising systems, and its General Manager is a member of the council of the Franchise Association of Greece. (references)

However, in the wake of Camisea mid-stream concession award, the General Manager of Aguaytia, Dante LaGatta, announced that his firm would consider launching a private tender for the rights to construct a pipeline and distribute gas to commercial and industrial clients. (references)

Civil Liberties

Angola

The station's general manager subsequently denied any political pressure. (references)

Czech Republic

On January 11, the controversial general manager resigned amid widespread protests supporting the journalists. (references)

Czech Republic

There was a controversy about political influence on CTV in December 2000, when the Council dismissed the CTV general manager. (references)

Economic History

Mauritius

Interested U.S. suppliers should contact Mr. Coolwant Ramful, General Manager, State Trading Corporation, Fon Sing building, Port Louis, Mauritius. (references)

Philippines

If foreign controlled, registered firms may indefinitely retain foreigners in the positions of president, treasurer, general manager or their equivalents. (references)

Jamaica

Among them, they must have 10 to 350 bedrooms, facilities for holding conferences, be operated by a qualified general manager and maintain adequate security. (references)

Trade

Panama

The CFZ is operated and managed by its Board of Directors, an Executive Committee and the General Manager of the institution. (references)

Travel

Croatia

But decision-making has tended to be centralized resting in the hands of a managing director or general manager. (references)

Worker Rights

Czech Republic

Protests against the appointed general manager of the State-run television station, which began in December 2000, continued into January. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: General Manager

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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43

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31

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10

general manager job

9

general manager nba

7

general manager resume

7

duty general manager

6

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6

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5

general manager salary

4

general manager nfl

3

general manager mets

3

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2

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2

general manager operations resume

2

restaurant general manager

2

general manager sports woman

2

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2

general manager mlb

2

general manager restaurant resume

2
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Modern Translations: General Manager

Language Translations for "general manager"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏المدير العام (managing director, president). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

總"理 . (various references)

   

Danish

  

generaldirektoer (corporate manager, executive director). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pääjohtaja (Chairman, chairman and manager director, Chief Executive Officer, director general, Executive Chairman, president chief executive). (various references)

   

French

  

directeur général. (various references)

   

German

  

Generaldirektor (chairman, corporate manager, executive director, managing-director, president), hauptgeschäftsführer. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

総監督 , 総"配人 , セ氏 (Celsius, Centigrade, gelatin, general contractor, general strike, jelly, Jerry, major construction contractor, seminar, zebra crossing, zebra zone, zero, Zeus). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

そうしはいに", そうか"とく, ゼネラルマネージャー . (various references)

   

Manx

  

ard-reireyder. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eneralgay anagermay

   

Russian 

  

генеральный директор (director general, general director). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

genel müdür (director general, president). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: General Manager

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-e-e-g-g-l-m-n-n-r-r"

-5 letters: garageman, garagemen.

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Alternative Orthography: General Manager


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 6E 65 72 61 6C      4D 61 6E 61 67 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 00100000 01001101 01100001 01101110 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#77 &#97 &#110 &#97 &#103 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 006E 0065 0072 0061 006C      004D 0061 006E 0061 0067 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41718071846778247678067737184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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