The term manager can be used as an adjective or as a noun . In the first case, it is used to qualify the person who receives an assignment (an order, a mission or a request).
For example: “Marcos is in charge of bringing the drinks for dinner tonight” , “If there is a penalty for the Uruguayan team, the person in charge of kicking it will be Luis Suárez” , “I am not in charge of the registrations, for You should talk to the employee who works at that desk about this matter.”
As can be seen in the three previous examples, it is possible to make a formal order (such as an order that an employer gives to his subordinates, both temporarily and indefinitely) or an informal one (such as when a person asks a one of your friends to bring drinks to your party). Between both extremes, needless to say, there is a wide range of nuances that respond to the context.
Manager, on the other hand, can be used as a noun to name the individual who is in charge of a commercial premises, a restaurant, a home or another type of establishment or premises: “Excuse me, who is in charge of the business? I want to make a claim” , “I got a job as a bar manager in the center” , “The hotel manager is a very nice man” .
Note that it is also possible to use the adjective even to talk about a person with a job position like those mentioned in the previous paragraph. For example: instead of asking for "the person in charge of the business" we could say "the person in charge of claims", and in this case we are using the adjective form of the word, although it is identical in appearance to the noun.
It is not easy to distinguish both uses at first glance, especially given the omissions typical of everyday speech, but we can use a little trick that will get us out of trouble when syntactically analyzing a sentence that contains this term: if we can place "person" or "individual", according to gender, before "in charge" or "in charge", respectively, then we find ourselves in the presence of an adjective. For example: we could not say "Where is the individual in charge?", since in this case in charge is a noun; But it is correct to ask for "the individual in charge of cleaning."
Here we are presented with a somewhat particular challenge, because it is not always so obvious whether the construction is an adjective or a noun. If we return to the example of "the person in charge of the business", confusion may arise because the term in charge is followed by the contraction of the preposition of and the article the , very similar to the phrase "the person in charge of claims".
How to distinguish them and know if we are dealing with an adjective or a noun? A piece of advice that can help us in most cases is to look at whether the preposition and the article are followed by a specific noun , such as "store", or one that refers to an action , as is the case with "measurement": in the In the first case, it is likely that manager functions as a noun, while in the second, as an adjective.
The person in charge of a building is a worker who carries out various activities essential for the normal functioning of this type of multi-family housing. The manager, also called a doorman (since his activities include opening the door to neighbors and preventing strangers from entering the building), is in charge of taking out the trash , cleaning common spaces and carrying out general maintenance tasks.
In the diplomatic field, the chargé d'affaires is an agent whose rank is lower than the resident minister (head of mission or ambassador), whom he replaces in case of absence. The project manager , finally, is the employee who, in a company , has the responsibility of planning and executing a plan.