支配人|しはいにんshihainin[2]nakadaka (mid-high)

1. nounmanager; executive
   支配人しはいにんは我々われわれの計画けいかくを許可きょかした。↗

   The manager approved our plan.

• SynonymマネージャーNeutralBroadly used loanword for managers, including school sports-team staff; 「支配人」 suggests the top manager of a hotel or theater and is also a legal term.
• Synonym番頭ばんとうCasualColloquial word for the head clerk of an old-style merchant house, also used of a trusted right-hand man; 「支配人」 is the modern term.
• RelatedエグゼクティブWrittenWritten-style loanword for top executives, as in 「エグゼクティブクラス」; 「支配人」 points more to the manager of a shop or establishment.
• Related幹部かんぶNeutralThe core leadership of an organization, as in 「幹部会議」; 「支配人」 is a manager entrusted with full authority over its business operations.
• Related常務じょうむFormalFormal word for a managing director or for routine business; 「支配人」 runs the business on delegated authority but need not be a director.
• Related役員やくいんFormalFormal term for a company's directors, auditors and other officers; 「支配人」 is not itself a director's title, though a director may also serve as one.
• Related重役じゅうやくFormalFormal word for a company's directors and top officers; 「支配人」 is a manager entrusted with running the business, not one of these posts.
• Related専務取締役せんむとりしまりやくFormalFormal title for the senior managing director who oversees management and operations, ranking next to the president; 「支配人」 is not a director's title.
• Related常務取締役じょうむとりしまりやくFormalFormal title for the managing director in charge of day-to-day operations; 「支配人」 is not a director's title, though a director can hold it.
• Antonym従業員じゅうぎょういんNeutralHired employees in general; 「支配人」 is also an employee, the contrast being only managerial responsibility versus an ordinary post.
• Antonym店員てんいんNeutralOrdinary shop staff; contrasted with 「支配人」 in duties—running the business versus waiting on customers.

Use 「支配人」 for a manager entrusted with full charge of a business, as in 「ホテルの支配人」. For a general manager say 「マネージャー」; for company directors 「役員」 or 「重役」; 「番頭」 is the old merchant-house head clerk; ordinary staff are 「従業員」 or 「店員」.

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1. 経営けいえい主しゅに代かわり業務ぎょうむの一切いっさいの権限けんげんを有ゆうする者もの。マネージャー。
2. (商法しょうほう・会社法かいしゃほう)会社かいしゃ又または会社かいしゃではない商人しょうにんに代かわってその事業じぎょうに関かんする一切いっさいの裁判さいばん上じょう又または裁判さいばん外がいの行為こういをする権限けんげんを有ゆうする使用人しようにん。