{
  "id": "manager.administrative",
  "term": "manager",
  "sense": "administrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 9,
  "arena": "manager",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who controls a group’s work",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "control.ability",
      "groups.collection",
      "work.effort",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "control over a group’s work creates a manager",
    "novel_properties": [
      "authority over others",
      "responsibility for outcomes"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Satya Nadella directed Microsoft’s shift to AI-integrated cloud services, reallocating 30% of engineering teams to Azure AI projects.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Panama Canal Authority coordinates lock operations, scheduling 40 daily transits across seven water bridges to maintain global shipping flow.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "At Toyota’s Motomachi plant, team leaders use andon cords to halt assembly lines when defects occur, ensuring quality control by worker escalation.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "role.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "manager",
    "managers"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-manager.administrative"
}