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indulgency patterns

indulgency patterns is the plural of indulgency pattern.

Meaning of indulgency pattern

Noun

indulgency pattern (plural indulgency patterns)

  1. A management style in which the manager makes certain concessions to subordinates, rather than strictly enforcing every rule.
    • Clearly, he was appointed to 'tighten things up' and quickly acted to replace the indulgency pattern with a much more demanding and tightly organised system.1985, Meredydd G. Hughes, Peter Ribbins, Hywel Thomas, Managing Education: The System and the Institution, page 230

Questions about indulgency patterns

What is indulgency patterns the plural of?
Indulgency patterns is the plural of indulgency pattern.

Words near indulgency patterns in the dictionary

  1. indulgences
  2. indulgencies
  3. indulgencing
  4. indulgency
  5. indulgency pattern
  6. indulgency patterns
  7. indulgent
  8. indulgential
  9. indulgently
  10. indulger
  11. indulgers

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