director


Definition: Meaning of, director in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / dɪˈrɛktə;dʌɪˈrɛktə /

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director directors
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  1. someone who controls or manages a company [↪  executive]
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  2. someone who is in charge of a particular activity or organization
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  3. the person who gives instructions to the actors and other people working on a film or play [↪  producer]
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director used in phrases

  • Director of Central Intelligence (noun)
    1. the head of the United States Intelligence Community and director of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Director of Public Prosecutions
    1. in the legal system of England and Wales, the lawyer whose job it is to decide whether or not a person should be charged with a crime, in cases where it is not clear. There is a similar official in Scotland called the procurator fiscal .
  • Director of Studies (noun)
    1. a teacher in a British university or language school who is in charge of organizing the students' programmes of study
  • art director (noun)
    1. someone whose job is to decide on how pictures, photographs etc will look in a magazine, film, advertisement etc
  • director of research (noun)
    1. a supervisor in a research centre
  • director's cut (noun)
    1. a film containing all the parts that the director wanted to include, that usually appears after the film has been shown in cinemas without those parts
  • director-general (noun)
    1. the person in charge of a large public organization
  • director-stockholder relation (noun)
    1. law the responsibility of corporate directors to act in the best interests of stockholders
  • executive director (noun)
    1. a person responsible for the administration of a business
  • film director (noun)
    1. the person who directs the making of a film
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