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management: see industrial management industrial management, term applied to highly organized modern methods of carrying on industrial, especially manufacturing, operations.

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1.management - Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also suit). Spoken derisively, as in "*Management* decided that ...".
2.management - Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed "The Mgt"; this derives from the "Illuminatus!" novels.


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