Word Meanings - DIRECTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body

Additional info about word: DIRECTOR

A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift. 2. One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company. What made directors cheat in South-Sea year Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIRECTOR)

• Arbiter
• Arbitrator
• judge
• umpire
• moderator
• director
• referee
• adjudicator
• Leader
• Chief
• guide
• pioneer
• head
• manager
• Director
• superintendent
• overseer
• supervisor
• Officer
• Official
• functionary
• conductor
• administrator
• dignitary
• official
• Superintendent
• Inspector
• controller
• visitor
• principal

Related words: (words related to DIRECTOR)

• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• PIONEERS' DAY
  In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• UMPIRESHIP
  Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel.
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• CHIEFEST
  First or foremost; chief; principal. "Our chiefest courtier." Shak. The chiefest among ten thousand. Canticles v. 10.
• MODERATOR
  1. One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies. Sir W. Raleigh. Angling was ... a moderator of passions. Walton. 2. The officer who presides over an assembly to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings, and declare
• SUPERVISORY
  Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• JUDGER
  One who judges. Sir K. Digby.
• DIRECTORY
  Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
• OVERSEERSHIP
  The office of an overseer.
• ARBITRATOR
  1. A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration. 2. One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut,
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• MANAGERY
  1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.
• CHIEF JUSTICE
  The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• KERCHIEF
  couvrechef, F. couvrechef, a head covering, fr. couvrir to cover + 1. A square of fine linen worn by women as a covering for the head; hence, anything similar in form or material, worn for ornament on other parts of the person; -- mostly used in
• FOREJUDGER
  A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• RINGLEADER
  1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
• ENKERCHIEFED
  Bound with a kerchief; draped; hooded; covered. Milton. That soft, enkerchiefed hair. M. Arnold.
• GUINEA-PIG DIRECTOR
  A director who serves merely or mainly for the fee paid for attendance.