ETYM Late Lat. conductus defense, escort, from Latin conductus, p. p. of conducere. Related to Conduce, Conduit.
1. The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
2. Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
3. Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
4. That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
5. The manner of guiding or carrying one's self; personal behavior; mode of action.
6. Plot; action; construction; manner of development. + prikaži više

ETYM Latin directio: cf. French direction.
1. A general course along which something has a tendency to develop.
2. A line leading to a place or point; SYN. way.
3. A message describing how something is to be done; SYN. instruction.
4. The spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves.

ETYM Latin ductus a leading, conducting, conduit, from ducere, ductum, to lead. Related to Duke, Douche.
1. A bodily passage or tube conveying a secretion or other substance; SYN. canal, channel.
2. A continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls.
3. An enclosed conduit for a fluid.

1. Direction or advice as to a decision or course of action; SYN. counsel, counseling, direction.
2. The act of guiding or showing the way; SYN. guiding, steering.

ETYM Old Eng. giae, French guide, Italian guida. Related to Guide.
Someone who shows the way by leading or advising.

ETYM Old Eng. led, leed, lead, as. leád; akin to Dutch lood, Mid. High Germ. lôt, German loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Swed. and Dan. lod.
(Homonym: led).
1. A position of leadership (especially in the phrase 'take the lead').
2. An advantage held by a competitor in a race.
3. A news story of major importance; SYN. lead story.
4. The introductory section of a story; SYN. lead-in.
5. Evidence pointing to a possible solution; SYN. track, trail.
6. The playing of a card to start a trick in bridge.
7. (Baseball) The position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base.
8. The angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile).
9. (Pronounced) A soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull gray; SYN. Pb, atomic number 82.
10. (Pronounced) A mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil; SYN. pencil lead.
11. (Pronounced) A thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing; SYN. leading. + prikaži više

1. The ability to lead:
2. The activity of leading; SYN. leading.
3. The body of people who lead a group; SYN. leaders.
4. The status of a leader
Role that involves organizing others and taking decisions. A leader in a work organization may be an autocratic leader, someone who perhaps listens to advice but ultimately makes decisions on his or her own, or he or she may be a democratic leader, allowing others to participate in the decisionmaking process. + prikaži više

ETYM From Manage.
1. The act of managing something; SYN. direction, managing.
2. Those in charge of running a business.
Process or technique of managing a business. Systems vary according to the type of organization, company, and objectives.
Since the early 1970s, there has been a growing demand for learned management skills, such as those taught in the Harvard Business School, us, and at the London Business School. By contrast, in Japan, such skills are learned on the job; employees tend to spend their careers with the same company and toward the end will acquire managerial status. + prikaži više

An extended journey; SYN. circuit.