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Director may refer to:

Literature[edit]

• Director (magazine), a British magazine
• The Director (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
• The Director (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty

Music[edit]

• Director (band), an Irish rock band
• Director (Avant album) (2006)
• Director (Yonatan Gat album)

Occupations and positions[edit]

Arts and design[edit]

• Animation director
• Artistic director
• Creative director
• Design director
• Film director
• Music director
• Music video director
• Sports director
• Television director
• Theatre director

Positions in other fields[edit]

• Director (business), a senior-level management position
• Director (colonial), head of chartered company’s colonial administration for a territory
• Director (education), head of a university or other educational body
• Company director, a member of (for example) a board of directors
• Cruise director
• Executive director
• Finance director or chief financial officer
• Funeral director
• Managing director
• Non-executive director
• Technical director
• Tournament director

Science and technology[edit]

• Director (military), a device that continuously calculates firing data
• Adobe Director, multimedia authoring software
• Fibre Channel director, a large switch for computer storage networks
• Director telephone system, or Director exchange
• GCR Class 11E or Directors, a class of locomotive
• Director, the spatial and temporal average of the orientation of the long molecular axis within a small volume element of liquid crystal

Other uses[edit]

• Director (1969 film), a Soviet film directed by Alexey Saltykov
• Director (2009 film), an American film directed by Aleks Rosenberg
• The Director, an artificial intelligence system in the video game Left 4 Dead
• HMS Director (1784), a ship of the British Royal Navy
• Directors beer, by Courage Brewery

People with the surname[edit]

• Aaron Director (1901–2004), professor at the University of Chicago Law School
• Kim Director (born 1974), American actress

See also[edit]

• Deputy Director (disambiguation)
• Directeur sportif, a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event
• Director-general
• Director string, a way of tracking free variables in computation
• French Directory, the executive committee of the French Revolutionary government between 1795 and 1799

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10 Apr 2023
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1	0   0 n. a member of the governing board of a corporation or associatio…

2	0   0 Director Relationships Related Term:  author n. ~ 1. The individual responsible for the overall artistic aspects of a production in the performing arts, including supervision of the actors and crew. — 2. A ti [..]

3	0   0 Director See: Board of directors.

4	0   0 Director The ICS title for an individual responsible for supervision of a branch.

5	0   0 Director A person appointed to oversee and run a company or organisation along with other directors, In the entertainment industry, the person who directs the making of a film, TV program, etc.

6	0   0 Director late 15c., «a guide,» from Anglo-French directour, French directeur, agent noun from Latin dirigere (see direct (v.)). Corporate sense is from 1630s; theatrical sense from 1911.

7	0   0 Director 'Director' includes all board level appointments of NHS foundation trusts, NHS trusts and special health authorities and other bodies carrying on a regulated activity that are responsi [..]

8	0   0 Director Person elected by shareholders to serve on the board of directors. The directors appoint the president, vice presidents, and all other operating officers. Directors decide, among other matters, if and [..]

9	0   0 Director A level in a management hierarchy. [D04077]

10	0   0 Director A member of the governing board of a corporation, typically elected at an annual meeting of the shareholders. As a group, the directors are responsible for making important business decisions — espec [..]

11	0   0 Director someone who controls resources and expenditures member of a board of directors someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show film director: the person who direct [..]

12	0   0 Director The supervisor of the actual making of a film or television program.

13	0   0 Director Aiming circle in US terminology.  Directors were used to orient the guns in their Zero Line and for general survey within regiments.  The standard directors throughout the war were the Numbers 6 or [..]

14	0   0 Director  – The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would [..]

15	0   0 Director (and directing) the creative artist responsible for complete artistic control of all phases of a film’s production (such as making day-to-day determinations about sound, lighting, action, casting [..]

16	0   0 Director Lower case in text. Upper case in titles: Spencer Tracy, Director, GDS.

17	0   0 Director Definition One of several individuals elected by a corporation’s shareholders to establish company policies, including selection of operating officers and payment of dividends.

18	0   0 Director Psychodrama. The therapist who establishes the role play and the scenario.

19	0   0 Director The person who has overall responsibility for controlling and supervising the performance of a work written for stage or screen, whose name appears in the credits at the beginning or end of a motion p [..]

20	0   0 Director 1 : the head of an organized group or administrative unit or agency 2 : any of a group of persons usually elected by shareholders and entrusted with the overall control of a corporation NOTE: …

21	0   0 Director The person responsible for giving an actor voice-over direction in an audition, session or class.

22	0   0 Director a person, usually employed or subcontracted by the tour operator, who accompanies a tour from departure to return, acting as a guide and troubleshooter and performing all functions to make the tour op [..]

23	0   0 Director The person responsible for the physical creation of a film or television programme, who is often the final decision-maker with regard to creative matters. The controversial ‘auteur theory’ c [..]

24	0   0 Director In TV news, the director is usually a studio director, in charge technically of getting the bulletin to air. The editorial decisions are made by a producer.

25	0   0 Director A supervisor; generally refers to the person responsible for all audience-visible components of a program, film, or show, whereas the producer is responsible for the financial and other behind-the-sce [..]

26	0   0 Director The person appointed to the position of a director (or is acting in that capacity) of a Commonwealth company in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001.

27	0   0 Director A corporate board member elected by stockholders to establish corporate policies, including the selection of the management team, and payments of dividends.

28	0   0 Director (n) someone who controls resources and expenditures(n) member of a board of directors(n) someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show(n) the person who dire [..]

29	0   0 Director N M director

30	0   0 Director Director of Civil Aviation

31	0   0 Director The person who oversees the details of filming. The director will keep track of the film’s progress and influence the film’s look and feel through camera work and set design. The director is [..]

32	0   0 Director The person in charge of the overall cinematic vision of the film and the performance of the actors.

33	0   0 Director The person responsible for the dramatic interpretation of an opera

34	0   0 Director Under the Environmental Protection Act, employees of the Ministry of the Environment may be designated as Directors authorized to exercise a range of powers such as issuing an Order.

35	0   0 Director In a stageplay, the individual responsible for staging (i.e. placing in the space or «blocking») the actors, sculpting and coordinating their performances, and making sure they fit with the [..]

36	0   0 Director Person who takes the screenplay and turns it into pictures and sounds, by directing the DoP and camera crew, sound, lighting, art and design, wardrobe etc. and actors, and the driving the post product [..]

37	0   0 Director Person who has primary control over a film’s creative aspects, as well as over the direction of the principle cast and crew.

38	0   0 Director The person principally responsible for the creative direction of a film. The direction is usually involved with planning the story, working on-set with the actors and cinematographer, and guiding the editing process.

39	0   0 Director The main creative artist on a film, usually the driving artistic source who orchestrates the various other creative personnel on the film, communicating to the actors how a scene should be played. Typ [..]

40	0   0 Director the main orchestrator of the various creative activities that go into film production, the director collaborates with and guides designers, editors, cinematographers, technicians, and actors in their [..]

41	0   0 Director The ‘author’ of a film. The person with overall artistic responsibility for getting the film made. See Auteur.

42	0   0 Director Controls the action and dialogue in front of the camera. Translates the written word into visuals and dialogue. The director is responsible for all creative aspects of a movie. The director usually he [..]

43	0   0 Director The director is the leading creative artist on a movie set. The director works directly with the actors on their performances and has final creative control on almost every aspect of the the film. The [..]

44	0   0 Director The coordinator of all artistic and technical aspects of any production.

45	0   0 Director The person responsible for overseeing all aspects of the making of a film.

46	0   0 Director Physicians who serve in a medical and administrative capacity as head of an organized Medical Staff and who also may serve as liaison for the Medical Staff with the administration and Governing Board.

47	0   0 Director electro-mechanical device for directing and controlling gunfire.

48	0   0 Director Aaron Director’s enduring contribution to economics came via his role in the development of the Chicago law and economics tradition. Director was born …

49	0   0 Director «Director» means Director of Transportation. [1983 c.338 §38]

50	0   0 Director n. a member of the governing board of a corporation or association elected or re-elected at annual meetings of the shareholders or members. As a group the directors are responsible for the policy maki [..]

51	0   0 Director [Acting] based on the perceived expectations of the developers or authors.

52	0   0 Director the supervisor of a duplicate bridge event

53	0   0 Director The person in overall artistic control of the production.

54	0   0 Director a person, usually employed or subcontracted by the tour operator, who accompanies a tour from departure to return, acting as a guide and troubleshooter and performing all functions to make the tour op [..]

55	0   0 Director Also known as a ‘company officer’, a director is a person or corporate body appointed by shareholders to manage the daily activities of a company. Minimum age requirement of 16. A minimum of one d [..]

56	0   0 Director The chief executive and administrative officer of the Insurance Department.

57	0   0 Director A person who conducts the affairs of a company.

58	0   0 Director A company’s Directors run the company on a day-to-day basis. The company’s management and control is their responsibility. Due to the company’s limited liability status, Directors will not be he [..]

59	0   0 Director    A person who conducts the affairs of a company.

60	0   0 Director Person who conducts the affairs of a company.

61	0   0 Director Person elected by voting common shareholders at the annual meeting to direct company policies. Disaster Out Clause

62	0   0 Director The parasitic element of an array that reinforces energy coming from the driver element.

63	0   0 Director One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., »director of engineering»), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., »film director»). That whic [..]

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0   0 Director For the purposes of the FACT Standards, there are five categories of Director:Program Director- Physician responsible for all administrative and clinical operations of the clinical transplantation program, including compliance with FACT standards. The Clinical Program Director shall be appropriately licensed to practice medicine in the jurisdiction [..]

65	0   0 Director See: Board of directors.

66	0   0 Director Director may refer to:

67	0   0 Director Director were an Irish art rock quartet from Malahide in County Dublin. The group consisted of Michael Moloney (vocals/guitars), Eoin Aherne (guitars), Shea Lawlor (drums) and Rowan Averill (bass guit [..]

68	0   0 Director Director may refer to:

69	0   0 Director Director may refer to:

70	0   0 Director The title director has been used in colonial administrations not only as a bureaucratic rank and for the members of a board of directors, but also specifically, as in this article, for the head of the [..]

71	0   0 Director A director, also called an auxiliary predictor, is a mechanical or electronic computer that continuously calculates trigonometric firing solutions for use against a moving target, and transmits target [..]

72	0   0 Director Director is a 2009 action film directed by Aleks Rosenberg, produced by Alex Cohen, and starring Claudia Davilla, Stephane Kay, Mike Paris and Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated group’s Prodigal Sunn. The film i [..]

73	0   0 Director The term director is a title given to the senior management staff of businesses and other large organisations. The term is in common use with two distinct meanings, the choice of which is influenced b [..]

74	0   0 Director The term director is a title given to the senior management staff of businesses and other large organisations. The term is in common use with two distinct meanings, the choice of which is influenced b [..]

75	0   0 Director Director may refer to:

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One that supervises, controls, or manages. noun

A member of a group of persons chosen to control or govern the affairs of an institution or corporation. noun

A person who supervises the creative aspects of a dramatic production or film and instructs the actors and crew. noun

The conductor of an orchestra or chorus. noun

An electronic device that continually calculates and displays information used for firing weapons at moving targets, such as missiles or aircraft. noun

In geometry, a fixed guiding line. noun

The small printed or written letter inserted as a guide in the space to be afterward filled by the designer or illuminator of the large initial. noun

One who directs; one who guides, superintends, governs, or manages. noun

Specifically— One of a number of persons, appointed or elected under provision of law, having authority to manage and direct the affairs of a corporation or company. All the directors collectively constitute a board of directors. They are agents of the corporation, and not of the stockholders. Generally they are elected for one year. noun

In music, the leader or conductor of a company of vocal or instrumental performers: as, a choir director; an orchestral director. noun

Anything that directs or controls. noun

Specifically — In surgery, a grooved probe, intended to direct the edge of the knife or scissors in opening sinuses or fistulæ or making incisions generally, In electricity, a metallic instrument on a glass handle connected by a chain with the pole of a battery, and applied to the part of the body to which a shock is to be sent. noun

One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. noun

One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation. noun

A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. noun

A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath. noun

One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director). noun

A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time. noun

The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal. noun

The person who directs the making of a film noun

One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).

A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.

That which directs or orientates something.

A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.

The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

A mythical creature known to occasionally visit corporate offices. Directors thrive upon the professionalism and professional attire of all employees of the offices, and as such, several notices are issued in advance of a director’s arrival for people to be on their best behavior. Directors, however, are quite elusive — despite an employee’s best behavior and finest dress, these efforts are often in vain, as directors do not desire to go slumming with the commonfolk. A director’s smile is known to result in rapid career advancement. Ironically, the most common instance of a director’s smile is from employee termination. Urban Dictionary

A person who directs during a movie/play or any production. Urban Dictionary

Barefoot fags from California who work for porno companies. Urban Dictionary

To have a large amount of work scrapped through the last minute involvement of a Director expressing entirely arbitrary and subjective views. Urban Dictionary

The one who gets the blame if anything they create goes tits up, even when it’s not their fault. Urban Dictionary

The new brand for everything a director could want…and more! Urban Dictionary

Directoritis is a similiar condition such as «senioritis» «retire-itis» and just simple food itis. However, directoritis pertains to movie directors. The disease is most commonly acquired after the Oscars. Since the directors are loving their little gold oscar, they no longer make good movies, resulting in movie goers having to settle for less «quality» movies. This time of the year is usually a month or two after the oscars and is the christmas for Blockbuster economically. Soon after, the disease is cured and we can once again…see good movies. Urban Dictionary

A totaly useless program used as an outlet for useless people to continue to be useless. Urban Dictionary

One who conducts a middle/high school or college band. Yes it’s true they like to tell lame jokes but most band kids like that weird humor anyway. Give em a break. Some of these directors are serious to the point of craziness. Band directors really try and are usually nice people, unless they don’t give a shit about the band. Then they just suck. Very busy these band directors are. Urban Dictionary

1. The most awesome teacher you will ever have. Often makes funny jokes, pokes fun at band students and spends an enormous amount of time making the band sound and look good. Urban Dictionary

Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 2 votes

1. director, manager, managing directornoun

   someone who controls resources and expenditures

2. directornoun

   member of a board of directors

3. director, theater director, theatre directornoun

   someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show

4. film director, directornoun

   the person who directs the making of a film

5. conductor, music director, directornoun

   the person who leads a musical group

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. directornoun

   One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).

2. directornoun

   A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.

3. directornoun

   The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.

4. Etymology: influenced by directorius

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Directornoun

   Etymology: director, Latin

   1. One that has authority over others; a superintendent; one that has the general management of a design or work.

   Himself stood director over them, with nodding or stamping, shewing he did like or mislike those things he did not understand.
   Philip Sidney, b i.

   In all affairs thou sole director.
   Jonathan Swift, Miscel.

   What made directors cheat in south sea year?
   Alexander Pope, Ep.

   2. A rule; an ordinance.

   Common forms were not design’d
   Directors to a noble mind.
   Jonathan Swift, Miscel.

   3. An instructor; one who shews the proper methods of proceeding.

   They are glad to use such as counsellors and directors in all their dealings which are of weight, as contracts, testaments.
   Richard Hooker, Pref.

   4. One who is consulted in cases of conscience.

   I am her director and her guide in spiritual affairs.
   John Dryden, Sp. Fr.

   5. An instrument in surgery, by which the hand is guided in its operation.

   The manner of opening with a knife, is by sliding it on a director, the groove of which prevents its being misguided.
   Samuel Sharp, Surgery.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Directornoun

   one who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent

2. Directornoun

   one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company

3. Directornoun

   a part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action

4. Directornoun

   a slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath

5. Etymology: [Cf. F. directeur.]

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1. Director

   A member of an institution or business who may or may not have an executive function. The director is usually chosen or appointed to control or govern the affairs of an institution or business.

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1. director

   A person with the accurate and specific intuitive ability, experience, knowledge, skills, training, IT skills, understanding and vision to lead, direct and manage various or specific facets of a business, enterprise, company, organization, unity assembly, unity council, unity legislature, unity senate, house of representatives, unity government, local unity government, regional unity government, national unity government, european unity government or international unity government.

   The directors meet monthly to review their budget, goals, objectives, plans, processes, procedures, strategy and systems.

   Submitted by MaryC on January 12, 2020  

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1. DIRECTOR

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Director is ranked #75317 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

   The Director surname appeared 256 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Director.

   95.3% or 244 total occurrences were White.
   1.9% or 5 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Committee Member
   • Film Maker

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘director’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #792

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘director’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #1615

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘director’ in Nouns Frequency: #231

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of director in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of director in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of director in a Sentence

1. The IAEA:

   IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano will travel to Tehran today for meetings with high-level Iranian officials on Sunday, 20 September.

2. Oakbay Resources:

   This decision follows a sustained political attack on the Company, and the concern that the jobs and livelihoods of nearly one thousand employees would be at immediate risk as a result of the outgoing director‘s association with the company.

3. Ron Wyden:

   The Morell report confirms some extremely troubling facts about Deputy Director Gina Haspel and the destruction of interrogation videotapes, gina Haspel didn’t just draft the cable that authorized the destruction of the tapes, Gina Haspel played a key role in events surrounding the drafting of the cable.

4. Rob Portman:

   When President Biden announced President Biden intention to nominate Ms. Tanden as OMB Director, I expressed concern and urged President Biden to reconsider. As a former OMB Director, I know that the OMB Director has to be able to work productively with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

5. Michael McCaul:

   The bill requires the nation’s top security officials — the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the FBI, and the Director of National Intelligence — to certify before admitting any Syrian or Iraqi refugee into the United States that the individual does not represent a security threat.

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Translations for director

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• مدير, مخرجArabic
• дырэктар, рэжысёрBelarusian
• директор, режисьор, ръководителBulgarian
• directora, directorCatalan, Valencian
• režisér, ředitelCzech
• direktørDanish
• Regisseurin, Direktor, Direktorin, RegisseurGerman
• σκηνοθέτης, διευθύντρια, σκηνοθέτις, διευθυντήςGreek
• direktoro, reĝisoroEsperanto
• director, directoraSpanish
• johtaja, ohjaajaFinnish
• régisseur, directeurFrench
• stiúrthóirIrish
• במאית, במאי, מנהל, מנהלתHebrew
• igazgató, rendezőHungarian
• leikstjóriIcelandic
• direttore, capo, registaItalian
• 監督, 指揮者Japanese
• کاربه‌ده‌ستKurdish
• whakatakaMāori
• direktur, pengarah, sutradaraMalay
• directeur, regisseurDutch
• dyrektor, reżyserPolish
• diretorPortuguese
• regizori, regizor, directori, directorRomanian
• директор, режиссёр, дирижёрRussian
• upravitelj, ravnatelj, режисер, zborovodja, režiser, redatelj, rediteljSerbo-Croatian
• režisér, riaditeľSlovak
• direktor, režiserSlovene
• regissör, chefSwedish
• mkurugenziSwahili
• yönetmenTurkish
• директор, режисерUkrainian
• quản đốcVietnamese
• dilekanVolapük
• 导向器Chinese

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noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a board of directors/trustees

▪ The board of directors met yesterday.

a company director/executive

▪ He earns a huge amount of money as a senior company executive.

a film director

▪ This year’s festival includes a tribute to the French film director Bertrand Tavernier.

a movie director

▪ He and his wife are both movie directors.

a television director

▪ He’s a very successful television director.

art director

deputy director/chairman/governor etc

▪ the Deputy Secretary of State

Director of Studies

director’s chair

director’s cut

funeral director

make it to manager/director etc

▪ How did anyone so stupid make it to manager?

managing director

non-executive director

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

artistic

▪ The age of those mighty, entrepreneurial artistic directors has probably come to an end.

▪ Not unnaturally, its organiser, Paul Onoratini, and its artistic director, Rene

assistant

▪ Before that she was a divisional director in Berkshire and assistant director in Reading County Borough.

▪ Bonanni, the former assistant director for Installations and Logistics.

▪ The assistant director called Brando who ignored him.

athletic

▪ Lorenzo, this is Wayne Wright, athletic director at Pepperdine.

▪ Jody had never been a head coach, but the athletic director at Oregon felt she had it in her.

▪ The athletic director renewed his efforts to force the university to remove the sculpture.

▪ The five-year extension takes Mathews through the 2002-2003 season, athletic director Bill Hogan said.

▪ If the appeal ever happens, it will be the first in school history, according to associate athletic director Kevin Reneau.

▪ He is offensive coordinator and acting athletic director at South Mountain High.

deputy

▪ Barrie Catchpole, a director of Quilter Goodison, will become deputy managing director.

▪ Both the executive director of the agency and the deputy executive director are black.

executive

▪ John Akker is the executive director of Near.

▪ The role of chief executive has gone to executive director, Mr Joe Stevenson.

▪ Six years after its founding, she became its executive director.

▪ Suzanne Strassburger, executive director of the association, did not return calls yesterday.

general

▪ The pros and cons of three possible posts were considered — commercial manager, general manager or director of coaching.

▪ From his public comments it even mystifies the general director, Jeremy Isaacs, the star of the show.

▪ The general director, Evvy Edwards, was recruited to administer the Halls in 1990.

▪ He retired as general director of the Mission in 1902.

managing

▪ It’s all very mysterious — why, for instance, does Cape still need a managing director but not Chatto?

▪ Royden Axe, managing director, Design Research Associates.

▪ He became managing director of Esso in 1968 and was chairman from 1972 to 1980.

▪ But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director.

▪ B was the managing director of the plaintiffs.

▪ It gave Brian McMaster, the company’s managing director, the worst night he has ever had.

new

▪ The future of new director general John Birt is in question because of his taxation arrangements.

▪ Within the year, the new development director had brought in three times her salary.

▪ Trustees representing substantial Ferranti family interests wrote to Sir Derek asking for the board to be replaced or supplemented by new directors.

▪ After passing a State board licensing examination, new funeral directors may join the staff of a funeral home.

▪ To the new directors Because you are new in the Opera House, I am writing to tell you some important things.

▪ Supple told committee members that the university is currently searching for a new athletic director.

▪ Mayne Nickless’ new managing director, Bob Dalziel, will join the company on Monday.

regional

▪ Neither he nor his peers were surprised when the regional director asked him to consider a management career.

▪ Ian Frost, regional director of Inntrepreneur, said the leases offered big advantages over the short-term agreements.

▪ An elected health commissioner would run the system with an appointed medical advisory board and regional directors.

▪ A new united sales team for East Anglia is in place reporting to regional director.

▪ Then the final choice lies with their regional directors.

▪ Each region has a director and all the regional directors meet together as the Branches Committee.

■ NOUN

art

▪ So an illustration may offer far wider possibilities for the art director to achieve special effects and a distinctive style.

▪ When he awoke, he found himself in San Francisco — as the art director of a ballet magazine.

▪ Phil Bicker, our art director, never goes home. 9.

▪ Do not let your editor or art director unduly influence you.

▪ Leaver, then camping out on Oz art director Jonathan Goodchild’s floor, joined the staff.

▪ It aims to give writers and art directors a thorough grounding of the advertising business and valuable first-hand experience.

▪ For some years now, writer and art director have been considered as equal partners working closely together.

▪ A good production person must keep up with every development and ideally acquaint the art directors with every one as well.

associate

▪ Future Systems has appointed three new associate directors.

▪ Gross is an associate director at Woodbourne.

▪ He later became associate director of circulation planning and vice president and business manager.

▪ Early in the setup of the Northwest Respirator Center he hired Dunning to work as his part-time associate director.

company

▪ This listed the names of oil company directors who may have committed offences.

▪ Statistics show that one in every three company directors aged 40 will die before reaching age 65.

▪ The Review Panel now inspires real fear in company directors.

▪ High-powered females, at that: these were company directors, partners, owner-managers and senior civil servants.

▪ Reading Company Reports Like computer people and bank managers, company directors have a language of their own.

▪ He was saved when company director dad Paul, 42, looked in by chance.

▪ In addition, senior executives are largely drawn from the same narrow background as company directors.

film

▪ There are few film directors who can resist a good car chase.

▪ And sometimes, he even toys with his long-running fantasy of dropping out of the business and becoming a film director.

▪ So was film director Oliver Stone.

▪ And those vignettes were made by local college students working with an award-winning independent film director.

▪ Now the legendary film director wants Sam to fly to New York for a second interview next week.

▪ Cleese, 52, fell for her after his divorce two years ago from his second wife, film director Barbara Trentham.

▪ The usually private Sporty Spice posed hand-in-hand with film director Dan Cadan.

▪ This film director, Bella Kropotkin, was undoubtedly after him, and undoubtedly he would take advantage of it — tonight!

finance

▪ Mr Dignum, 52, has been group financial director since 1988 and was appointed finance director of the stores in January.

▪ In a recent survey, finance directors were asked what change they would most like to see in corporate governance.

▪ Colin was fulsome in his praise of the role of finance directors in delivering a near impossible set of financial reforms.

▪ Vince Luck was brought in as finance director from Northern Foods.

▪ As trade in services soars, taxmen will find it harder to keep up with clever finance directors.

▪ New director: Michael Taylor has been appointed to the board of Northumbrian Water as finance director.

▪ Mr Taylor was formerly group finance director of chemical and timber protection group, Hickson International.

funeral

▪ Some funeral directors will assist in do-it-yourself funerals by supplying a simple coffin and dealing with the documentation. 4.

▪ To show proper respect and consideration for the families and the dead, funeral directors must dress appropriately.

▪ The Independent Television Commission have now removed the ban on funeral directors.

▪ Employment Funeral directors held about 26, 000 jobs in 1994.

▪ Yet Scudamore concerns himself only with temporary preservation related to the needs and requirements of the modern funeral director.

▪ It can be seen at Citizens Advice Bureaux, or at funeral directors who are members of the Association.

▪ To unburden themselves of arranging and directing these tasks, grieving families turn to funeral directors.

marketing

▪ But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director.

▪ The effects of inflation are not limited to the shopping basket, says Raoul Pinnell, Prudential’s marketing director.

▪ The relaunch expenses paid off, doubling sales at many outlets, according to marketing director Peter Holmes.

▪ Other examples in the 1980s include information technology directors, marketing directors, sales directors or, indeed, human resources directors.

▪ Robin Whitbread, marketing director, was voted Marketer of the Year.

▪ So the marketing director enters a coalition with the research director to pressure the boss to allocate more resources to product design.

■ VERB

appoint

▪ Future Systems has appointed three new associate directors.

▪ Sheila Tindle, 28, has been appointed a local director at the Middlesbrough offices of stockbroker Wise Speke.

▪ Eventually Powell was appointed director of the U.S.

▪ William Denny was appointed as the director to represent the family’s interests.

become

▪ The idea that he should become a director came from Edwards.

▪ He grew up at the club before becoming its director in 1957.

▪ He wanted to train as a chartered accountant with the ultimate aim of becoming a managing director.

▪ The foundation merged with the new arts center when it opened in October 1994 and Shaw became museum director.

▪ Joy Colthup, course leader, general studies, becomes director of studies, enrichment.

▪ Three years later he was assigned to be deputy director of the Office of Space Systems and became its director in 1969.

board

▪ As a practical matter, boards of directors are reasonably safe from being thrown out by the stockholders.

manage

▪ Stanley Druckenmiller, managing director of Soros’ funds, also was to have spoken during the panel discussion.

▪ Weisenburger also is managing director of Wasserstein Perella, which stands to make close to $ 200 million on its 1990 investment.

▪ Warrington Council has been given a detailed presentation on Liverpool’s proposals by airport managing director Rod Hill.

▪ Henry Fan, managing director of Citic, said the company is changing its focus as it shifts assets.

▪ Green, a managing director of the Washington office of Lehman Brothers Inc., could not be reached for comment.

market

▪ He made his son vice president and his daughter marketing director.

▪ And to marketing director Elizabeth Carduff, whose support and deep-felt response to this book has turned business into pure pleasure.

▪ He began his career as corporate marketing director for Booth Newspapers.

▪ The client Merrill is a 32-year-old marketing director at an East Bay company.

say

▪ Offhand, I would say a company director.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

acting manager/head teacher/director etc

assistant manager/director/cook etc

▪ Employment Hotel managers and assistant managers held about 105, 000 wage and salary jobs in 1994.

▪ He started at the Town House in 1991, working as assistant manager from 1997 to 1999.

▪ He worked his way up from kitchen porter, assistant cook, employment at a casino and by painting and decorating.

▪ Hotel managers and assistant managers strive to ensure their guests will have a pleasant stay.

▪ One of his teammates will be former Darlington assistant manager Tony McAndrew.

▪ She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King.

▪ The, the, the late director was pushed and knocked down I guess when he was assistant director.

▪ West Ham’s assistant manager Harry Redknapp has been another victim of a fans’ fit-up.

associate member/director/head etc

▪ Early in the setup of the Northwest Respirator Center he hired Dunning to work as his part-time associate director.

▪ Gross is an associate director at Woodbourne.

▪ He later became associate director of circulation planning and vice president and business manager.

▪ Mike McCarthy is associate director, head of sixth-form studies.

▪ The aim is now to change the constitution to elect four associate members on to a management committee.

▪ These activities are available when you join the society as an associate member.

emeritus professor/director etc

professor/director etc emeritus

▪ Ben Bagdikian, professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.

▪ He retired in 1964 with the title professor emeritus of the University of London.

▪ Nathan Keyfitz, a professor emeritus of sociology and population at Harvard University, has spent considerable time analyzing the debate.

▪ Noel Timms is professor emeritus, University of Leicester.

the retiring president/manager/director etc

▪ Finally, on November 24, he took over the reins of the Puzzle Palace from the retiring director.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Dr Jane Wilde, director of the Health Promotion Agency

▪ Have you met the new finance director?

▪ Miller has been appointed to the position of sales director.

▪ The directors are meeting today to discuss the company’s future.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ As art gallery director, Alistair will be served one.

▪ For youngsters in particular the personality of the director is as important as any musical qualifications.

▪ Many said the special effects, a hallmark of director Steven Spielberg, were amazing.

▪ The director keeps his audience off-balance.

▪ The Alley has undergone a rebirth under Boyd, who became artistic director in 1989.

▪ This demonstrates how difficult it has become to determine the real incomes of such highly paid directors.

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English Language Learners Definition of director

: a person who directs a play, movie, etc.

What type of word is director?

One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director). A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.

What part of speech is director?

DIRECTOR (noun) definition and synonyms | Macmillan Dictionary.

What do u mean by director?

A director is an elected individual who, along with other directors, is responsible for a company’s corporate policy. Collectively, directors form the board of directors.

Who is a director in simple words?

A director is the head of an organization, either elected or appointed, who generally has certain powers and duties relating to management or administration. A corporation’s board of directors is composed of a group of people who are elected by the shareholders to make important company policy decisions.

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