Deportment vs Management - What's the difference?
deportment | management | Related terms |
bearing; manner of presenting oneself:
:Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
*:...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...
conduct; public behavior:
:Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.
apparent level of schooling or training:
:His academic deportment did not match his degree record.
self-discipline:
:The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
(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.