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Directorship   /dərˈɛktərʃˌɪp/  /daɪrˈɛktərʃˌɪp/  /dɪrˈɛktərʃˌɪp/   Listen
Directorship

noun
1.
The position of a director of a business concern.





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"Directorship" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tartini attained such reputation as a player and musician that he was appointed, in 1721, to the directorship of the orchestra of the church of St. Anthony at Padua. Here, according to Fetis, he spent the remaining forty-nine years of his life in peace and comfort, solely occupied with the labors connected with the ...
— Great Violinists And Pianists • George T. Ferris
... the Bedford in the foreign seals, and Lord Halifax in those for the plantations. If the former does, you will have ample instructions to negotiate for singers and dancers! Here is an epigram made upon his directorship. ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... game. Mr. Alfred Burton himself becomes at a stroke a famous author just by merely writing what he sees and seeing true. (But wouldn't his readers also need a nibble at the bean?) Finally falling from grace as the effect of this food of the gods wears off, he accepts a directorship of the new mind-food company, "Menatogen," which brings him untold wealth. Quite innocent fooling which yet leaves one with the impression that our popular authors let themselves off rather lightly from the labour of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 • Various


Words linked to "Directorship" :   position, berth, office, situation, place, spot, director, post, billet


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