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  • verb transitive To manage using macro-management.

Etymologies

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macro- +‎ manage

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Examples

  • Can we macromanage, or do we have to shut up and watch?

    Scripting News for 1/13/2008 « Scripting News Annex 2008

  • GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: But let me tell you something, what I'm not going to do is accept a bill that tries to macromanage the process, tell us who to hire, where to move them and how to do it.

    CNN Transcript Aug 25, 2002 2002

  • If you can't efficiently macromanage a large economy while knowing how to properly micromanage your armies on the ground, you will probably lose.

    Verbal Spew 2008

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