to micromanage
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6.3
- verb
- /ˌmaɪkroʊˈmænɪdʒ/
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microgestionar
- Many employees feel unhappy when their boss micromanages their daily tasks instead of trusting them.
- tries to micromanage
I have had it with people micromanaging other people on the Internet.
- I have had it with people micromanaging other people on the Internet.
- They try to micromanage the actions of even the lowest employee in the group.
- Number one, small entrepreneurs, they never micromanage.
- So part of it, as I say, managing, managing the managers and not micromanaging them, letting them have their head.
- They make a good point that moms and dads can have a non anxious presence for their kids and stop micromanaging everything from homework to their friendships.
- Parents are either micromanaging their kids too much or not paying attention to them too much.
- And so we've had a great run because we've had a period of limited government and and we don't try to like micromanage people's lives.
- And so sometimes it's nice just to kind of take a step back and realize systems can still work without us constantly micromanaging things.
- But overall, when you bring in talented people with the right traits, good intentions, good intentions, you don't have to control them, you don't have to micromanage them.
- And and I still learning on how to not micromanage and push things away.
- Now you're just confusing people, trying to control them, micromanage them, or just feel because you're nervous.
- Let them create, not get in their way, not micromanaged.
- It's it's just enough, but it's it doesn't sort of overly like, you know, it doesn't micromanage the the viewer in terms of telling them too much.
- And sometimes a client might want to quote, UN quote, micromanage an artist, which some artists take abrasion to, OK.
- Like my behavior was micromanaging, controlling, imagining that I ever know better than a man how he should man, OK.
Examples
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Parents are either micromanaging their kids too much or not paying attention to them too much.
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If by big, do you mean that government is trying to micromanage everything we do?
Blog text (24) -
I think that now they have an economy they can micromanage, and infrastructure building still works.
Blog text (27) -
Whereas in the US and UK, we micromanage our kids.
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His philosophy of managing research was to fund the right people and not try to micromanage them from Washington.
Academic text (2002) -
Here we go again trying to micromanage the delivery of health care without changing the financing.
Blog text (5) -
I don't know why you have to micromanage me all of a sudden, Jim.
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They try to micromanage the actions of even the lowest employee in the group.
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The board's role does not and should not include micromanaging the college.
Academic text (1997) -
Second, today many observers complain that Congress is "micromanaging" the defense budget.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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7.3
To control someone too much so they cannot decide or act
To tell someone what to do too much and stop their independence
Make a person or situation too controlled so they cannot act on their own
Antonyms
How Controlling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word micromanage comes from micro- meaning 'small', as in microscope, and manage meaning 'to control or handle'. So, to micromanage someone is to 'manage the small things', to control every little detail of their work.