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micro-management

micro-management is the alternative form of micromanagement.

Meaning of micromanagement

Noun

micromanagement (uncountable)

  1. The direct management of a project, etc. to an excessive degree, with too much attention to detail and insufficient delegation.
    • After years of micromanagement by the Department for Transport, it finally seemed as if the door was fully open to the concept of Rail Devolution, with the prospect of local officials planning and delivering local train services.2026 March 18, Peter Plisner, “Will devolution deliver real local control?”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 44
  2. The management of short-term or small-scale aspects of a strategy game.
    Antonyms:
    macromanagement

Questions about micro-management

What is micro-management the alternative form of?
Micro-management is the alternative form of micromanagement.

Words near micro-management in the dictionary

  1. micro-level orientation
  2. micro-levels
  3. micro-location
  4. micro-locations
  5. micro-macro paradox
  6. micro-management
  7. micro-mobility
  8. micro-nation
  9. micro-nations
  10. micro-ohm
  11. micro-ohms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-management (page history and authors); micromanagement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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