English Vocabulary: Micromanage. Is your boss or your mother a micromanager? They are more common than you think! Click here to read an article from Harvard Business Review to see if you are a micromanager.
MICROMANAGE
- to control every little detail of a situation
- to be controlling
- My parents are trying to micromanage ever decision I’m making and it is difficult to do anything.
- She has a hunch that her new boss is going to be micromanaging every project.
- It sounds like your boss doesn’t trust you and that’s why he is micromanaging the situation.
MICROMANAGER
- the person who tries to control every detail of a situation.
- a controlling person
- Every since he got the promotion he has been acting like a micromanager and no one is happy about it.
- I think my older brother likes being a micromanager and is always asking me where I am going and why.
- They say that children who grow up in homes with micromanagers are incapable of making their own decisions later in life.
B1 B2 C1 C2 ENGLISH VOCABULARY
Now that you have seen English Vocabulary: Micromanage, take a look at our other Vocab Rehab posts:
Vocab Rehab: Lateral Thinking
Vocab Rehab: Setback
