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  2. Micromanagement - Wikipedia

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    Merriam-Webster's online dictionary defines micromanagement as "manage[ment] especially with excessive control or attention on details." [3]The online dictionary Encarta defined micromanagement as "atten[tion] to small details in management: control [of] a person or a situation by paying extreme attention to small details."

  3. Lists of pejorative terms for people - Wikipedia

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    List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with negative connotations; Category:Sex- and gender ...

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation e.g. stands for the Latin exempli gratiā "for example", and should be used when the example(s) given are just one or a few of many. The abbreviation i.e. stands for the Latin id est "that is", and is used to give the only example(s) or to otherwise qualify the statement just made.

  5. Micromanagement (gameplay) - Wikipedia

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    For example, a micromanagement technique known as kiting requires continuous input from the player in order to keep their character at an optimum distance from a target. [ citation needed ] Another example of twitch micromanagement can be found in racing games whereby a player is required to keep making split second adjustments to the position ...

  6. Macromanagement - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of social institutions in this respect include government and religious organizations, some more in-line with serving society that others. This interpretation of macromanagement is less about managing employees, but rather managing the organization from a broader perspective that is oriented toward the future.

  7. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    Opposite-sex marriage coined after the advent of same-sex marriage. Organic farming, organic food Farming practiced without the use of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, and so forth; and the food so produced. Over-the-board chess (also OTB chess) Chess played in real time using a physical chessboard, as opposed to computer chess or ...

  8. List of metonyms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of common metonyms. [n 1] A metonym is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. For instance, "Westminster", a borough of London in the United Kingdom, could be used as a metonym for the ...

  9. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word original can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.