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district manager

district manager

4 3.2
A person who looks after several stores in one area and helps their staff
  • noun
  • /ˈdɪstrɪkt ˈmænɪdʒər/
translation icon : gerente de distrito
  • As a district manager, she oversees several store locations to ensure they meet their sales targets.
  • district manager said
  • district manager's job
  • new district manager

Examples

  • Rich Mogan, the company's district manager in southwestern Pennsylvania, said about half of his fleet of 100 trucks now run on the cheaper fuel.

    Blog text (31)
  • The Department of Social Services district manager or designee chairs RIAC meetings.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Maybe ask the district manager.

  • See, I'm the district manager.

  • My father was a civil engineer and the district manager for the Gulf States Utilities.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I worked as a store manager, district manager, regional manager, and then spent five years at the corporate office where I worked closely with the buyers and marketing group.

    Blog text (2)
  • As a district manager for that company, I had to split my time between reaching out to current representatives (1,000 in my district!) and recruiting new representatives.

    Blog text (10)
  • Jonathan Gaska, who has been the district manager of Community Board 14 for 23 years, has long decried what he sees as the city's traditional treatment of the Rockaways as a human dumping ground.

    Blog text (28)
  • Before leaving Minnesota, Fischer spent two years as an assistant director for the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District in Minneapolis and five years as a district manager for the Anoka County Conservation District.

    Blog text (10)
  • Linda Cushman of EarthSmart Solutions worked with Peet's district manager Robert Aichele to design flyers inviting the community to pick up grounds from the other five stores in that area.

    Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

superintendent
vsdistrict manager
166 6.0

A person who manages an organization or its department, often in police and schools

works in commercial areas supervising multiple local stores and sales
general manager
vsdistrict manager
97 3.0

A person who is in charge of all parts of a business or department

focuses on a specific geographic area and sales supervision

How Senior

district manager
4 3.2
stationmaster
  • UK
2 5.8
station agent
  • US
1 4.2
porter
71 2.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

district + manager

The meaning 'a manager responsible for a geographic district' is directly and compositionally derived from 'district' (an administrative area) + 'manager' (a person who manages). This noun–noun modification pattern is a regular, cross-linguistic composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The compound district manager comes from the simple idea of one person who looks after a whole district, or area, and the word manager shows they are 'in charge'. That's why district manager means someone who looks after several local stores and staff in a specific area.