Definition of "micromanage" []

• To direct or control in a detailed, often meddlesome manner. (verb-transitive)

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.

• "BASH: Now, to be clear, Republican leaders, some are saying it's important not to what they call micromanage the war."
• "That desire to micromanage is what has created most of what is dysfunctional in our health-care system."
• "For a guy who apparently likes to gives new meaning to the word micromanage, it's easy to micromanage in good times."