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MANAGERESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does manageress mean?
• MANAGERESS (noun)
The noun MANAGERESS has 1 sense:
1. a woman manager
Familiarity information: MANAGERESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman manager
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("manageress" is a kind of...):
director; manager; managing director (someone who controls resources and expenditures)
Context examples
The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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"The rope of lies is short." (Arabic proverb)
"Leave the spool to the artisan." (Corsican proverb)