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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | persons running an organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, board, bosses, brass, directorate, directors, employers, execs, executive, executive suite, executives, front office, head, mainframe, management, micro management, person upstairs, top brass, upstairs |
| Antonyms: | employees |
| Main Entry: | administration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human or group who manages effort of an organization |
| Synonyms: | admiral, advisers, board, bureau, cabinet, chair, chairperson, chargé d'affaires, command, commander, committee, consulate, department, directors, embassy, executive, executives, feds, front office, general, governing body, headquarters, legislature, management, ministry, officers, officials, powers, presidency, president, presidium, stewards, superintendents, supervisors, top brass, upstairs |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bureaucracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | system which controls organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, beadledom, city hall, civil service, directorate, government, management, ministry, officialdom, officials, powers that be, red tape, regulatory commission, the Establishment, the system |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness, attention to detail |
| Synonyms: | alertness, caution, circumspection, concentration, concern, conscientiousness, consideration, diligence, direction, discrimination, effort, enthusiasm, exactness, exertion, fastidiousness, forethought, heed, interest, management, meticulousness, nicety, pains, particularity, precaution, prudence, regard, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody of person, usually child |
| Synonyms: | administration, aegis, auspices, charge, control, direction, guardianship, keeping, management, ministration, protection, safekeeping, superintendence, supervision, trust, tutelage, ward, wardship |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervisory responsibility |
| Synonyms: | care, conduct, custody, handling, intendance, management, oversight, running, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, ward |
| Main Entry: | command |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule, power |
| Synonyms: | ability, absolutism, aplomb, authority, authorization, charge, coercion, compulsion, constraint, control, despotism, domination, dominion, expertise, expertism, expertness, government, grasp, grip, hold, jurisdiction, know-how, leadership, management, might, prerogative, primacy, restraint, right, royalty, skill, sovereignty, strings, supervision, supremacy, sway, tyranny, upper hand |
| Notes: | an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels |
| Antonyms: | subordination |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | administration |
| Synonyms: | care, carrying on, channels, charge, control, direction, execution, guidance, handling, intendance, leadership, management, manipulation, organization, oversight, plan, policy, posture, red tape, regimen, regulation, rule, running, strategy, superintendence, supervision, tactics, transaction, treatment, wielding |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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