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How to spell management

hear itman·age·ment/'mænɪdʒmənt/nounLong vowels

What it means: The act of organizing and controlling people or things.

In a sentence: The teacher is in charge of classroom management to keep it organized.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as managment or manegement.

Same family: manager, managerial, managed, managing, managemental. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Management” comes from the verb “manage,” which traces back to Italian *maneggiare*, meaning “to handle” (especially a horse), from Latin *manus*, meaning “hand.” Over time, the idea of “handling” things expanded to mean organizing and directing people, money, and resources.

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