Meaning & use
skip manager
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Meaning
nouncountablebusiness
The person who manages your own manager, one level above them in the organization chart.
Grammar: A normal countable noun: my skip manager, our skip managers.
Patterns
- meet with your skip manager
- report to a skip manager
My skip manager invited the whole team to a quarterly lunch.
She asked her skip manager for advice about a career change.
Our skip manager rarely attends daily meetings.
Word forms
| plural | skip managers |
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Common combinations
- meet your skip manager
- New hires usually meet their skip manager in the first month.
- skip manager meeting
- The skip manager meeting is a chance to give honest feedback.
- talk to your skip manager
- Talk to your skip manager if your own boss cannot help.
- escalate to a skip manager
- He escalated the complaint to his skip manager.
Synonyms and how they differ
- senior manager
- A senior manager is just someone high in rank, while a skip manager is defined only by being one level above your direct boss.
- second-line manager
- Second-line manager means the same, but it sounds more formal and is common in large corporate or telecom settings.
- boss's boss
- Boss's boss is a casual spoken way of saying skip manager.
Opposites
Word family
- skip-level adjective
- involving someone two levels above you, as in a skip-level meeting
- manager noun
- a person who directs a team or department
- management noun
- the people in charge of a business
Commonly confused: skip manager or line manager?
skip manager vs line manager
A line manager is your direct boss, while a skip manager is the person above that boss.
Practice
Mia's team lead reports to a director. For Mia, that director is her ___.
Choose one answer.
The director manages Mia's own manager, so is her skip manager. Her line manager is the team lead, and a direct report would be someone below her.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “skip manager”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.