manageress:
(plural: ‘manageresses‘; male: ‘manager’ ← ← previous entry)
(mostly in British English) a woman who controls a business, especially a shop, restaurant or a small bar/pub;
a woman manager,
a stern manageress
e.g.
Mrs Mark was an efficient manageress whom the entire staff respected and obeyed without answering back.
Though the female words for some professions, such as conductress, manageress, mayoress, poetess, etc., are not used as frequently as they were once, there are some which are still in use and ‘manageress’ is only of them.
The successful manageresses of the inns and pubs are mostly those women who know how to manage the staff with their disciplined management skills and charm the customers with their benevolent smiles and sweet talk.
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