26984 words

director

8 definitions • 16 examples
1
a manager of an organization, company, college, etc.:

Examples:

board of directors She served on the hospital's board of directors.
director of She has become the director of the new information centre.
2
someone in charge of a school for very young children
3
a person who is in charge of a film or play and tells the actors how to play their parts:

Examples:

film director mainly UK In 1992, Lee finally became a film director.
movie director mainly US Many movie directors have a genre they return to again and again.
4
a person who directs the performance of an orchestra (= a group of musicians who play many different instruments together) or choir (= a group of people who sing together):

Examples:

Under their director Harry Grindle, the choir performed some unaccompanied choral pieces.
She became the orchestra's first ever female director.
5
a person in charge of an organization or of a particular part of a company’s business:

Examples:

a marketing director
6
A director is also a person who tells actors in a movie or play how to play their parts.
7
one of the managers who control a company or an organization:

Examples:

He became director of the new Royal Lyceum Theatre Company
serve as/act as a director She is retiring after serving as a director for two three-year terms.
be made/be appointed/be elected (as) a director I joined the company in 1999 and was appointed director last year.
resign/step down as director She told staff she would step down as director immediately.
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