manager
noun
man·ag·er
ˈma-ni-jər 
: one that manages: such as
a
: a person who conducts business or household affairs
He was promoted to manager last month.
b
: a person whose work or profession is management
c(1)
: a person who directs a team or athlete
the manager of a baseball team
(2)
: a student who in scholastic or collegiate sports supervises equipment and records under the direction of a coach
Examples of manager in a Sentence
I'd like to speak to the manager, please.
He was promoted to manager last year.
The team's general manager acquired five new players for the upcoming season.
The manager decided to change pitchers in the eighth inning.
The actress recently fired her manager.
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Macclesfield manager John Rooney dedicated his team’s amazing win to their former player’s memory as the non-league side’s players continue to be inspired by their late teammate.
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Patrick Snell, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
Trout said conversations with first-year manager Kurt Suzuki have included the idea of a return to center.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
One that stood out to Everett Plummer, a manager in the oil division at the time and one of several staffers tasked with investigating the Boarman case, was McCoon 3, an injection well that disposes salty oil field wastewater deep below the earth.
—Nick Bowlin, The Frontier, 16 Feb. 2026
Nick Evans, a Polar Capital fund manager, whose global tech fund beat 99% of peers in the last year, told Bloomberg that apart from infrastructure and cybersecurity, few software sectors will survive AI’s existential threat.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
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Patrick Snell, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
Trout said conversations with first-year manager Kurt Suzuki have included the idea of a return to center.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
One that stood out to Everett Plummer, a manager in the oil division at the time and one of several staffers tasked with investigating the Boarman case, was McCoon 3, an injection well that disposes salty oil field wastewater deep below the earth.
—Nick Bowlin, The Frontier, 16 Feb. 2026
Nick Evans, a Polar Capital fund manager, whose global tech fund beat 99% of peers in the last year, told Bloomberg that apart from infrastructure and cybersecurity, few software sectors will survive AI’s existential threat.
—J.d. Capelouto, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for manager
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“Manager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manager. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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manager
noun
man·ag·er
ˈman-ij-ər
1
: a person who manages especially a business or household affairs
2
: a person who directs a team or an athlete
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