"undermanager" meaning in English

See undermanager in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-undermanager.wav Forms: undermanagers [plural]
Etymology: From under- + manager. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|under|manager}} under- + manager Head templates: {{en-noun}} undermanager (plural undermanagers)
  1. A manager who is lower in the organizational hierarchy than another manager. Synonyms: under-manager Related terms: middle manager

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "manager"
      },
      "expansion": "under- + manager",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under- + manager.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "undermanagers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "undermanager (plural undermanagers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with under-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Great Britain. Dept. of Health and Social Security, Reported Decisions of the Social Security Commissioner:",
          "text": "Despite the effects of the disease, he was subsequently promoted to overman and thereafter to undermanager.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, John Gardner, Death is Forever, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The undermanager, on duty at reception, could have made a living in World War II movies.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Maggie Hope, The Coal Miner's Daughter, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I mean, all the lasses will be after him, him being an undermanager. An' then, he's getting old now, he must be nearly thirty. Nobody gets to be an undermanager lest they're getting on a bit, never mind how clever they are.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A manager who is lower in the organizational hierarchy than another manager."
      ],
      "id": "en-undermanager-en-noun-SQzH5hdp",
      "links": [
        [
          "manager",
          "manager"
        ],
        [
          "organizational",
          "organizational"
        ],
        [
          "hierarchy",
          "hierarchy"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "middle manager"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "under-manager"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-undermanager.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-undermanager.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-undermanager.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-undermanager.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-undermanager.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "undermanager"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "under",
        "3": "manager"
      },
      "expansion": "under- + manager",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From under- + manager.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "undermanagers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "undermanager (plural undermanagers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "middle manager"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with under-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Great Britain. Dept. of Health and Social Security, Reported Decisions of the Social Security Commissioner:",
          "text": "Despite the effects of the disease, he was subsequently promoted to overman and thereafter to undermanager.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, John Gardner, Death is Forever, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The undermanager, on duty at reception, could have made a living in World War II movies.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Maggie Hope, The Coal Miner's Daughter, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I mean, all the lasses will be after him, him being an undermanager. An' then, he's getting old now, he must be nearly thirty. Nobody gets to be an undermanager lest they're getting on a bit, never mind how clever they are.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A manager who is lower in the organizational hierarchy than another manager."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "manager",
          "manager"
        ],
        [
          "organizational",
          "organizational"
        ],
        [
          "hierarchy",
          "hierarchy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-undermanager.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-undermanager.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-undermanager.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/af/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-undermanager.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-undermanager.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "under-manager"
    }
  ],
  "word": "undermanager"
}

Download raw JSONL data for undermanager meaning in English (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (e4a2c88 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.