Definition of "management"

management

/ˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/

noun
usually uncountable, plural managements
1. (uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.
  Quotations
  The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
  1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 168
2. The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
  Quotations
  Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
3. (uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.