1A person who is in charge of an activity, department, or organization.

1. 1.1 A member of the board of people that manages or oversees the affairs of a business.
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   • A director on the board of Namport said that they can not allowed things to go on like this.
   • Around the time of opening, a whole new slate of directors took over the board.
   • One of Bryne's fellow directors managed to track down his direct phone number.
   • The association would like Irish companies to have a majority of independent directors on their boards.
   • The measures usually are approved by the boards of directors, most of whom are members of the same CEO club.
   • The company currently has four executive directors and one independent director on its board.
   • But it is one thing to be a director in name and another thing to actually sit on the board as a director.
   • Board directors ought to formally sit as representatives of their organizations as a whole.
   • He is a director of the main board in Europe only, and had nothing to do with the negotiations.
   • She also served as a director on the board of the Namibia Red Cross and Campus Crusade for Christ.
   • Business ties between directors and companies whose boards they sit on are being terminated.
   • The change is meant to spur directors to take back board powers ceded over the years to managers.
   • In the meantime it also appears that there is friction between board directors and shareholders.
   • The aim was to make it easier to oust bad directors and make boards more responsive.
   • Anglo Irish currently has six non-executive directors and five executive directors on its board.
   • The independent directors of the Eircom board are also supporting Valentia.
   • & Ryanair appointed two new non-executive directors to the board.
   • The bank suggested that Cunningham beef up the board with some high-profile directors.
   • Insisting on nominating a director to the board of the borrower may also be risky.
   • Most VCs will want to be able to nominate a director to the board of the company in which they invest.

   Synonyms

   administrator, manager, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, chair, head, chief, boss, principal, leader, governor, president, premier

   managing director, MD, chief executive, CEO

   superintendent, supervisor, controller, overseer, organizer

   member of the board

   informal kingpin, top dog, gaffer, bigwig, big cheese

   North American informal honcho, head honcho, numero uno, Mister Big, big wheel
2. 1.2 A person who supervises the actors and other staff in a film, play, or similar production.
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   • He says he is confident that his director's cut will be better appreciated.
   • I often receive requests from film directors and producers asking if they could use a track from one of my albums.
   • There's a gag reel, which is really funny, director's commentary.
   • He filled the roles of writer, producer, director and actor during his years in theatre.
   • Actors, directors and producers gathered in the city the other day to check this menace.
   • The sole significant extra on the disc is a director's commentary from Jewison.
   • Barda has worked as a presenter in some television shows and as an actor and film director.
   • Balkan film directors, actors and students in the field will join the discussion section of Dionisia.
   • The film director Jean Cocteau was a very strange man, in a decidedly French way.
   • Commercials are good for actors to meet directors and for them to see how you work.
   • Film directors often gave comedy actors like Vivek a relatively free hand in developing the humour track.
   • Jews played a major part in theater and in the film industry as producers, directors and actors.
   • Some deleted (actually extended) scenes are included with the director's commentary.
   • Like many Shakespearean film directors, Branagh shoots long sequences in one continuous take.
   • I didn't like ' Aliens' until I saw the director's cut.
   • Just sat through the 311 minute director's cut of 1900 with a friend.
   • I would like to say a heartfelt thanks to the many actors / directors who are producing our local plays today.
   • There isn't a strong enough commitment to letting people take risks with producers, directors and actors.
   • Peter Hall was the director and Laurence Olivier and Charles Laughton were still on the payroll.
   • These directors and actors have either entered Hollywood or become darlings of film festivals.

   Synonyms

   supervisor, controller, regisseur, producer, auteur, choreographer
3. 1.3
   short for musical director

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   • But there are many music composers, directors and singers who do not support the remix culture.
   • Those were days when the artistes, directors and composers used to spend days together to perfect the songs.
   • Francesca Zambello, one of the world's foremost female directors of opera and musical theatre, will direct.
   • French directors of the time thought little of setting several composers to work on a score.
   • The Singers, under their director Tim Morris, will perform works by Monteverdi.