Coping vs Management - What's the difference?
coping | management |
(lb) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
(lb) The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
(lb) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.
(uncountable, management) Administration; the process or practice of managing.
(management) The executives of an organisation, especially senior executives.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
(uncountable) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end.