camp, perform, build, conduct (business)
営 centers on setting up and running an organized activity or place: building a camp, conducting business, or performing a planned operation.
営 is the modern simplified form of 營. The older form combines 宮 (palace/building) with 炏 (fire), suggesting a lit, inhabited place—a camp or managed site. The modern form retains the core 吕 and cover 冖, but the historical fire component is lost.
The top ⺌ looks like small lights or fires, and 冖 covers a space. Below, 吕 resembles two rooms or tents. Picture a lit, covered camp with two tents: a place where business is conducted.
For エイ, imagine an A-frame tent at the camp: the letter 'A' sounds like エイ, and the tent is where you build and conduct camp activities.
management; administration; operation
business; trade; operations
management; administration; operation; running (a business); conducting
camp (supporters of a doctrine, party, etc.); faction (of a party)
money-making; commercialized; commercialised
private management
to run (a business); to operate; to conduct; to practice (law, medicine, etc.)
government management; state management
(under) municipal management (transport, housing, etc.); city facility management
public management
(under) metropolitan government management
direct management
activity; action; performance; execution
independent business; self-employment
running one's own business; doing business on one's own; self-employment
(under) prefectural management
farming; agriculture
corporation; foundation
maintenance and repair; upkeep (of equipment)
salesman; businessman
business office; place of business
business hours; opening hours; office hours
municipal subway
privatization; privatisation