1. Corporate power elites distinguished primarily by their distance
from actual productive work and their chronic failure to manage (see also
suit). Spoken derisively, as in
Management decided that ...
.
2. Mythically, a vast bureaucracy responsible for all the world's minor irritations. Hackers' satirical public notices are often signed ‘The Mgt’; this derives from the Illuminatus novels (see the Bibliography in Appendix C).