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Director   /dərˈɛktər/  /daɪrˈɛktər/  /dɪrˈɛktər/   Listen
Director

noun
1.
Someone who controls resources and expenditures.  Synonyms: manager, managing director.
2.
Member of a board of directors.
3.
Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show.  Synonyms: theater director, theatre director.
4.
The person who directs the making of a film.  Synonym: film director.
5.
The person who leads a musical group.  Synonyms: conductor, music director.



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"Director" Quotes from Famous Books



... due to Senator Wesley L. Jones, Superintendent E. S. Hall of the Rainier National Park and the Secretary of the Interior for official information; to Director George Otis Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey for such elevations as have thus far been established by the new survey of the Park; to A. C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, for permission to quote from Miss Judson's "Myths and Legends of the Pacific ...
— The Mountain that was 'God' • John H. Williams
... of Yampah, with a small squad of deputies. There was the mayor of Argenta, a director in the mines, and with him, puffing prodigiously and slowly up the ramp from the wagon-road, two brother directors away out from Denver. There were certain prominent citizens of Argenta and Hatch's ...
— To The Front - A Sequel to Cadet Days • Charles King
... encouraged him to imbue his works with that spirit which found so general a welcome. In vain the authority of the civil government endeavored to arrest the impulse which was gaining strength from day to day; in vain this director of the public mind was imprisoned and exiled; the farther he advanced in his career and the more audaciously he propagated his views on religion and government, the more he was rewarded with the renown which he sought. Monarchs became his friends and his flatterers; ...
— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta
... never actually visited the Celestial City, yet seemed as well acquainted with its laws, customs, policy, and statistics, as with those of the City of Destruction, of which he was a native townsman. Being, moreover, a director of the railroad corporation and one of its largest stockholders, he had it in his power to give me all desirable ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... I now see that my bright dream of a Correspondence-School post-graduate course cannot be realized. No bank president, no corporation director, electrical engineer, advertising expert, architect, or other distinguished alumnus would confess himself no gentleman by marking that coupon. The suggestion would be an insult, were it affectionately made by the good old president of his Alma Mater in a ...
— The Perfect Gentleman • Ralph Bergengren


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