competent manager

collocation in English

meaningsofcompetentandmanager

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competent
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.pɪ.tənt/us
/ˈkɑːm.pə.t̬ənt/
able to do ...
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manager
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmæn.ɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmæn.ə.dʒɚ/
the person who is responsible for managing ...
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(Definition ofcompetentandmanagerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The most earnest endeavour of everycompetentmanagerin business today is to run his plant with the minimum number of hands.
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Anycompetentmanagerin an organisation, whether public, private or any other kind, must consider its position in the changing circumstances of the world.
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The staff, under a verycompetentmanager, seemed to be doing their best to offer a good and compassionate service in very difficult circumstances.
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As anycompetentmanagerknows, every change or reorganisation requires a substantial investment.
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Acompetentmanagershould know whether a worker is good or bad in 26 weeks.
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As someone remarked, if one has run a children's party for seven year-olds with no damage to property or person one must be quite acompetentmanager.
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In general, therefore, the conclusion of the committees was that the vast majority of impoverished families were competent managers but had unavoidable deficiences of income.
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Competent managers have struggled hard to balance the books to keep departments open but have sometimes failed.
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There must be competent managers at the helm of those great institutions, which affect our constituents' lives.
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They were competent managers and ran the service with probity.
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The way in which local government is organised makes it almost impossible for competent managers to give time to local government.
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Obviously, we want the most competent managers to run our railways in the future.
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Other matters can be delegated to competent managers, but the head of the show must take full responsibility for marketing the firm's products and keeping people employed.
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A mine must have sufficient properly qualified and competent managers and every one of them must give precedence to health, safety and welfare over all other duties.
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