di·rec·tor

(dĭ-rĕk′tər, dī-)

1. One that supervises, controls, or manages.

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

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

4. The conductor of an orchestra or chorus.

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

di·rec′tor·ship′ n.

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director

(dɪˈrɛktə; daɪ-)

1. a person or thing that directs, controls, or regulates

2. (Commerce) a member of the governing board of a business concern who may or may not have an executive function

3. (Professions) a person who directs the affairs of an institution, trust, educational programme, etc

4. (Film) the person responsible for the artistic and technical aspects of making a film or television programme. Compare producer⁴

5. (Broadcasting) the person responsible for the artistic and technical aspects of making a film or television programme. Compare producer⁴

6. (Classical Music) music another word (esp US) for conductor²

ˌdirecˈtorial adj

ˌdirecˈtorially adv

diˈrectorˌship n

diˈrectress fem n

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di•rec•tor

(dɪˈrɛk tər, daɪ-)

n.

1. a person or thing that directs.

2. one of a group of persons chosen to control or govern the affairs of a company or corporation.

3. the person who interprets the script and supervises the development of a theater, film, television, or radio production.

4. conductor (def. 3).

5. the manager or head of certain organized groups.

[1470–80; < Late Latin]

di•rec′tor•ship`, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	director - someone who controls resources and expenditures manager, managing director administrator, decision maker - someone who administers a business bank manager - manager of a branch office of a bank district manager - a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district manageress - a woman manager
	2.	director - member of a board of directors board - a committee having supervisory powers; "the board has seven members" committee member - a member of a committee
	3.	director - someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show theater director, theatre director stage director - someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a stage show supervisor - one who supervises or has charge and direction of
	4.	director - the person who directs the making of a film film director film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker - a producer of motion pictures
	5.	director - the person who leads a musical group conductor, music director bandleader - the leader of a dance band bandmaster - the conductor of a band drum major - the leader of a marching band or drum corps drum majorette, majorette - a female drum major musician - artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

director

noun controller, head, leader, manager, chief, executive, chairman, boss (informal), producer, governor, principal, administrator, supervisor, organizer, baas (S. African) He is the director of the unit.

Film directors

Robert Aldrich (U.S.), Woody Allen (U.S.), Pedro Almódovar (Spanish), Robert Altman (U.S.), Lindsay Anderson (British), Michelangelo Antonioni (Italian), Gillian Armstrong (Australian), Anthony Asquith (English), Richard Attenborough (British), John Badham (U.S.), Warren Beatty (U.S.), Ingmar Bergman (Swedish), Bernardo Bertolucci (Italian), Luc Besson (French), Peter Bogdanovich (U.S.), John Boorman (English), Robert Bresson (French), Peter Brook (British), Mel Brooks (U.S.), Luis Buñuel (Spanish), Tim Burton (U.S.), James Cameron (U.S.), Jane Campion (New Zealander), Frank Capra (U.S), John Carpenter (U.S.), Marcel Carné (French), Claude Chabrol (French), René Clair (French), Jean Cocteau (French), Ethan Coen (U.S.), Joel Coen (U.S.), Francis Ford Coppola (U.S.), Roger Corman (U.S.), David Cronenberg (Canadian), Michael Curtiz (American-Hungarian), Joe Dante (U.S.), Cecil B de Mille (U.S.), Johnathan Demme (U.S.), Brian de Palma (U.S.), Vittoria De Sicca (Italian), Richard Donner (U.S.), Aleksandr Petrovitch Dovzhenko (Russian), Clint Eastwood (U.S.), Blake Edwards (U.S.), Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (Russian), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German), Federico Fellini (Italian), Victor Fleming (U.S.), Bryan Forbes (English), John Ford (U.S.), Milös Forman (Czech), Bill Forsyth (Scottish), Stephen Frears (English), William Friedkin (U.S.), Abel Gance (French), Terry Gilliam (U.S.), Jean-Luc Godard (French), Peter Greenaway (English), John Grierson (Scottish), D(avid) W(ark) Griffith (U.S.), Sacha Guitry (French), Peter Hall (English), Howard Hawks (U.S.), Werner Herzog (German), George Roy Hill (U.S.), Alfred Hitchcock (English), John Huston (U.S), James Ivory (U.S.), Peter Jackson (New Zealander), Derek Jarman (English), Neil Jordan (Irish), Chen Kaige (China), Lawrence Kasdan (U.S.), Philip Kaufman (U.S.), Elia Kazan (U.S.), Krzysztof Kieslowski (Polish), Stanley Kubrick (U.S.), Akira Kurosawa (Japanese), John Landis (U.S.), Fritz Lang (Austrian), David Lean (English), Spike Lee (U.S.), Mike Leigh (English), Richard Lester (U.S.), Barry Levinson (U.S.), Ken Loach (English), George Lucas (U.S), Sidney Lumet (U.S.), David Lynch (U.S.), Jim McBride (U.S.), Alexander Mackendrick (Scottish), Louis Malle (French), Joseph Mankiewicz (U.S.), Georges Méliès (French), Sam Mendes (English), Ismail Merchant (Indian), George Miller (Australian), Jonathon Wolfe Miller (English), Vincente Minnelli (U.S.), Kenji Mizoguchi (Japanese), Mike Nichols (American-German), Laurence Olivier (English), Max Ophüls (German), G(eorge) W(ilhelm) Pabst (German), Marcel Pagnol (French), Alan Parker (English), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Italian), Sam Peckinpah (U.S.), Arthur Penn (U.S), Roman Polanski (Polish), Sydney Pollack (U.S), Michael Powell (English), Otto Preminger (Austrian-U.S.), Emeric Pressburger (Hungarian), Vsevolod Pudovkin (Russian), David Puttnam (English), Satyajit Ray (Indian), Robert Redford (U.S.), Carol Reed (English), Carl Reiner (U.S.), Rob Reiner (U.S.), Edgar Reitz (German), Jean Renoir (French), Alain Resnais (French), Leni Riefenstahl (German), Guy Ritchie (English), Hal Roach (U.S.), Tim Robbins (U.S.), Nicholas Roeg (English), Eric Rohmer (France), George Romero (U.S.), Roberto Rossellini (Italian), Ken Russell (English), John Schlesinger (English), Martin Scorsese (U.S.), Ridley Scott (British), Don Siegal (U.S.), Steven Soderbergh (U.S.), Steven Spielberg (U.S.), Robert Stevenson (English), Oliver Stone (U.S.), Preston Sturges (U.S.), Quentin Tarantino (U.S.), Andrei Tarkovsky (Russian), Jacques Tati (French), Bertrand Tavernier (French), François Truffaut (French), Roger Vadim (French), Luchino Visconti (Italian), Joseph von Sternberg (Austrian-U.S.), Erich von Stroheim (Austrian-U.S.), Andrei Wajda (Polish), Peter Weir (Australian), Orson Welles (U.S.), Wim Wenders (German), Billy Wilder (Austrian-U.S.), Michael Winner (English), Robert Wise (U.S.), Zhang Yimou (Chinese), Franco Zeffirelli (Italian), Robert Zemeckis (U.S.), Fred Zinnemann (Austrian-British)

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director

noun

1. One who is highest in rank or authority:

boss, chief, chieftain, head, headman, hierarch, leader, master.

Slang: honcho.

Idiom: cock of the walk.

2. Someone who directs and supervises workers:

boss, foreman, foreperson, forewoman, head, manager, overseer, superintendent, supervisor, taskmaster, taskmistress.

Informal: straw boss.

Slang: chief.

3. A person having administrative or managerial authority in an organization:

administrant, administrator, executive, manager, officer, official.

Informal: exec.

4. Something or someone that shows the way:

conductor, escort, guide, lead, leader, pilot, shepherd, usher.

Translations

مُدِيرمُدير، مُخْرِج

režiséršéfředitel

instruktørlederchef

Direktor Intendant Regisseur

διευθυντής διοικητής σκηνοθέτης

director directivo

johtaja

directeur dirigeant

redatelj

stjórnandi; forstjóri; leikstjóri

direttore regista

管理者

감독

режиссёр директор режиссер

direktorrežiservodja

chef

ผู้อำนวยการ

direktör idareci yönetmen

đạo diễn

导演指导者董事

director

[dɪˈrektəʳ] N [of company] → directivo/a m/f; (on board of directors) → miembro mf del consejo de administración, consejero/a m/f; [of institution, department] (also Theat, Cine, Rad, TV) → director(a) m/f
director's cut (Cine) → versión f íntegra
director general → director(a) m/f general
Director of Public Prosecutions (Brit) → Fiscal mf General del Estado
see also board D
see also executive C
see also funeral B
see also managing, music B

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director

[dɪˈrɛktə^r daɪˈrɛktə^r] n

[organization, educational programme, institution] → directeur/trice m/f

(= board member) → administrateur/trice m/f

(THEATRE) [play] → metteur m en scène

(CINEMA, TV) [film, programme] → réalisateur/trice m/fdirector general director-general n → directeur/trice m/f général(e)Director of Public Prosecutions n (British) → procureur mf général, procureure f généraledirector of studies n → directeur/trice m/f d'étudesdirector's chair n → fauteuil m de metteur en scène

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director

(of company, institution) → Direktor(in) m(f), → Leiter(in) m(f); (Univ) → Rektor(in) m(f); director of studies → Studienberater(in) m(f); director of music → Musikdirektor(in) m(f); director of Public Prosecutions → Oberstaatsanwalt m → /-anwältin f

(Rad, TV) → Direktor(in) m(f); (Film, Theat) → Regisseur(in) m(f)

(Mil) → Richtgerät nt

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director

[dɪˈrɛktəʳ] n (Comm) → dirigente m/f, direttore/trice (d'azienda); (of play, film, TV programme) → regista m/f

direct

(diˈrekt) adjective

1. straight; following the quickest and shortest way. Is this the most direct route?

2. (of manner etc) straightforward and honest. a direct answer.

3. occurring as an immediate result. His dismissal was a direct result of his rudeness to the manager.

4. exact; complete. Her opinions are the direct opposite of his.

5. in an unbroken line of descent from father to son etc. He is a direct descendant of Napoleon.

verb

1. to point, aim or turn in a particular direction. He directed my attention towards the notice.

2. to show the way to. She directed him to the station.

3. to order or instruct. We will do as you direct.

4. to control or organize. A policeman was directing the traffic; to direct a film.

diˈrection (-ʃən) noun

1. (the) place or point to which one moves, looks etc. What direction did he go in?; They were heading in my direction (= towards me); I'll find my way all right – I've a good sense of direction.

2. guidance. They are under your direction.

3. (in plural) instructions (eg on how to get somewhere, use something etc). We asked the policeman for directions; I have lost the directions for this washing-machine.

4. the act of aiming or turning (something or someone) towards a certain point.

diˈrectional adjective

diˈrective (-tiv) noun

a general instruction from a higher authority about what is to be done etc.

diˈrectly adverb

1. in a direct manner. I went directly to the office.

2. almost at once. He will be here directly.

diˈrectness noun

diˈrector noun

a person or thing that directs, eg one of a group of persons who manage the affairs of a business or a person who is in charge of the making of a film, play etc. He is on the board of directors of our firm; The producer and the director quarrelled about the film.

diˈrectory – plural diˈrectories – noun

a type of book giving names and addresses etc. a telephone directory.

director

→ مُدِير režisér instruktør Direktor σκηνοθέτης director johtaja directeur redatelj regista 管理者 감독 regisseur direktør dyrektor director, diretor режиссер chef ผู้อำนวยการ direktör đạo diễn 导演

What's the name of the managing director? (US)
What is the name of the managing director? (UK) → Hvad er direktørens navn → Wie heißt der Geschäftsführer? → Mikä toimitusjohtajan nimi on? → Kako se zove izvršni direktor? → Jak się nazywa prezes? → Vad heter VD:n? → Genel müdürün adı nedir? → 总经理叫什么名字？