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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | spending, squandering |
| Main Entry: | guidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | counseling |
| Synonyms: | advice, auspices, conduct, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, government, help, instruction, intelligence, leadership, management, navigation, supervision, teaching |
| Main Entry: | handling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
| Synonyms: | administration, approach, care, charge, conduct, direction, manipulation, running, styling, superintendence, supervision, treatment |
| Antonyms: | mismanagement |
| Main Entry: | inspection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | examination, check |
| Synonyms: | analysis, checkup, frisk, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, inventory, investigation, look-over, maneuvers, once-over, pageant, parade, perlustration, probe, read, research, review, scan, scrutiny, search, superintendence, supervision, surveillance, survey, view |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, neglect |
| Main Entry: | jurisdiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of authority |
| Synonyms: | administration, arbitration, area, authority, bailiwick, bounds, circuit, command, commission, compass, confines, control, discretion, district, domination, dominion, empire, extent, field, hegemony, influence, inquisition, judicature, limits, magistracy, might, orbit, power, prerogative, province, purview, range, reach, reign, right, rule, say, scope, slot, sovereignty, sphere, stomping grounds, supervision, sway, territory, turf*, zone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | management |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | running an organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, care, charge, command, conduct, control, direction, governance, government, guidance, handling, intendance, manipulation, operation, oversight, rule, superintendence, superintendency, supervision |
| Antonyms: | mismanagement |
| Main Entry: | observation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attention, scrutiny |
| Synonyms: | ascertainment, check, cognition, cognizance, conclusion, consideration, detection, estimation, examination, experience, heedfulness, information, inspection, investigation, knowledge, mark, measurement, mind, monitoring, note, notice, noticing, once-over, overlook, perception, probe, recognizing, regard, remark, research, review, search, study, supervision, surveillance, view, watching |
| Notes: | observance refers to the following of a custom, duty, or law; observation refers to the act of noticing or recording |
| Antonyms: | heedlessness, inattention, indifference, neglect, thoughtlessness |
| Main Entry: | regulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | managing, organizing |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, administration, arrangement, classification, codification, control, coordination, direction, governance, governing, government, guidance, handling, management, moderation, modulation, reconciliation, regimentation, reorganization, settlement, standardization, superintendence, supervision, systematization, tuning |
| Antonyms: | deregulation, disorganization, mismanagement |
| Main Entry: | running |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management of organization |
| Synonyms: | administration, care, charge, conduct, control, coordination, direction, functioning, handling, intendance, leadership, maintenance, operation, organization, oversight, performance, regulation, superintendency, supervision, working |
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