director

Plural: directors

Noun

• A person who directs or manages, especially a movie or company.
• someone who controls resources and expenditures
• member of a board of directors
• someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
• the person who directs the making of a film
• the person who leads a musical group
• One who directs; the person in charge of managing a department or directorate (e.g., director of engineering), project, or production (as in a show or film, e.g., film director).
• A member of a board of directors.
• A counselor, confessor, or spiritual guide.
• That which directs or orientates something.
• A device that displays graphical information concerning the targets of a weapons system in real time.
• The common axis of symmetry of the molecules of a liquid crystal.
• A component of a Yagi–Uda antenna.

Examples

• [...] the confusion between directors who know nothing and managers who know everything [...].
• The game’s DIRECTOR announced the tie-breaking rules, much to the players’ chagrin.

Synonyms

conductor, film director, manager, managing director, music director, theater director, theatre director

Related Words

directorate