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manageress

[ man-i-jer-is; British man-i-juh-res ]

noun

  1. a woman who is a manager.


manageress

/ ˌmænɪdʒəˈrɛs; ˈmænɪdʒəˌrɛs /

noun

  1. a woman who is in charge of a shop, department, canteen, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gender Note

See -ess.
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of manageress1

First recorded in 1790–1800; manager + -ess
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In the novel he is Monsieur Eliot, lover of the hotel's French manageress, and at the end he escapes up-river on a barge.

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“The manageress let me sleep on her couch for a month. They were good people.”

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"After 21 years is it appropriate to sack the manageress who's created a culture and environment at this special home in the way that they have?" asks Graham.

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On a call-out at a retirement community in Clearwater, Mr Krueger extracted and examined water from swamps and ponds that had troubled the manageress.

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Raffaele Hairdressing manageress Clare Harper said she was "bewildered" by the first one but had now received four, which she has framed.

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