span of control in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spans of control",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1984, John Child, Organization: A Guide To Problems and Practice, page 66",
          "text": "So they found themselves arguing for the general application of two principles — limited spans of control and a limited number of hierarchical levels — which were mutually inconsistent, above all in the larger organization.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The number of subordinates directly reporting to a supervisor."
      ],
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "number of subordinates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Leitungsspanne"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "number of subordinates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Führungsspanne"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "number of subordinates",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "Lenkungsspanne"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "span of control"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "span of control"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spans of control",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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        "1": "spans of control"
      },
      "expansion": "span of control (plural spans of control)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1984, John Child, Organization: A Guide To Problems and Practice, page 66",
          "text": "So they found themselves arguing for the general application of two principles — limited spans of control and a limited number of hierarchical levels — which were mutually inconsistent, above all in the larger organization.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The number of subordinates directly reporting to a supervisor."
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "span of control"
      ]
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "number of subordinates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Leitungsspanne"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "number of subordinates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Führungsspanne"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "number of subordinates",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "Lenkungsspanne"
    }
  ],
  "word": "span of control"
}

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"span of control" meaning in English

Noun