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