Meaning & use
district manager
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Meaning
nouncountablebusiness
a person whose job is to manage several stores, offices, or branches within a particular area
Grammar: Countable: a district manager, two district managers. Often used with for or of: the district manager for the northeast.
Patterns
- district manager for something
- district manager of something
- work as a district manager
She was promoted to district manager after running three successful stores.
The district manager visits each branch at least once a month.
As district manager, he is responsible for hiring and training store managers.
Word forms
| plural | district managers |
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Common combinations
- regional manager
- The regional manager oversees all the district managers in the state.
- store manager
- The store manager reports directly to the district manager.
- district manager position
- She applied for the district manager position last week.
- assistant district manager
- He started as an assistant district manager and worked his way up.
Synonyms and how they differ
- area manager
- Very similar, but 'area manager' is more common in British English and can cover any defined area, not just a district.
- regional manager
- A regional manager usually covers a larger area than a district manager and may supervise several district managers.
Word family
- district noun
- an area of a town or country, or a business area
- manage verb
- to be in charge of something
- management noun
- the activity of controlling and organizing something
Commonly confused: district manager or general manager?
district manager vs general manager
A general manager runs one business or department, while a district manager oversees several locations.
Practice
Who does a district manager typically supervise?
Choose one answer.
A district manager manages several stores or branches within a district, so they supervise the managers of those locations. The CEO is far above them, customers are not supervised, and a national sales team would be too large an area.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “district manager”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.