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director
/dɪˈɹɛk.tɚ/
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What does director mean?
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 member of a board of directors.
- A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
More meanings (4)
noun
- 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 component of a Yagi–Uda antenna.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈɹɛk.tɚ/
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The first speaker on this occasion was Major Elphinstone, who had been the director of the gunpowder factories during the war.
At the end of my first year as director general I had not made one-tenth the progress I had hoped for.
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As vice-president and director in one of the banks organized largely by the family's capital, he was free to follow his impulses.
A club of necktie workers formerly meeting at Hull-House persistently resented any attempt on the part of their director to improve their minds.
This, if a fistula is present, may be best done with a blunt-pointed bistoury, or with a cannulated director and a scalpel.