Definition of "manager" []

• One who handles, controls, or directs, especially: (noun)
• One who directs a business or other enterprise. (noun)
• One who controls resources and expenditures, as of a household. (noun)
• One who is in charge of the business affairs of an entertainer. (noun)
• Sports One who is in charge of the training and performance of an athlete or a team. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The production shall have a manager, (hereinafter referred to as the \ "production manager\"), with duties as prescribed by the partnership."
• "He formed Pi initially as an outlet for the multireedist composer Henry Threadgill, whom he had met while serving as the label manager for Knitting Factory Works."
• ""We'd started talking to Jon Galkin, the label manager at DFA, towards the end of Hockey Night," explains Sprangers."