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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  8. List of freeware - Wikipedia

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    Popular examples of closed-source freeware include Adobe Reader, Free Studio and Skype. This is a list of notable software packages that meet the freeware definition. 3D artistry

  9. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.