director

[dəˈrektər]

Definition:
1. Someone who controls resources and expenditures.
2. Member of a board of directors.
3. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show.
4. The person who leads a musical group.

Use 'director' in a sentence:

1. Word went out that the director had resigned.
2. Mr. Lin is associate director of the Institute.
3. She became quite a notable director in the thirties and forties.
4. The director said he had been vindicated by the experts' report.
5. The director resigned in protest at the decision.
6. I was promoted to editor and then editorial director.
7. The move to the market nearly bankrupted the firm and its director.
8. With this new movie he has consolidated his position as the country's leading director.
9. She has only the director over her.
10. The director took us through the play scene by scene.
11. He rose through the ranks to become managing director.
12. "Cut!" the director yelled. "That was perfect."
13. The director puts a Hollywood gloss on the civil war.
14. The director paid tribute to all she had done for the charity.
15. The managing director's presence inhibited them from airing their problems.
16. The sudden resignation of the financial director put the company in a very vulnerable position.
17. He criticized the Director and, by implication, the whole of the organization.
18. The director objected to the cuts ordered by the censor.
19. He's on the board of directors.
20. The ultimate authority resides with the board of directors.
21. There were calls for her resignation from the board of directors.
22. She was edged out of the company by the new director.
23. We could write a letter to the director.
24. She's a mother and company director in one.
25. She's having lunch with the Director, no less.
26. She rose through the ranks to become managing director.
27. It's not a coincidence that none of the directors are women.
28. The director is standing on her immediate right.
29. The director has the most to lose.
30. He was voted most promising new director.
31. There has been a mixed reaction to her appointment as director.
32. The director discovered a rich vein of sentimentality.
33. She's been around as a film director since the 1980s.
34. They opposed her nomination to the post of Deputy Director.
35. The directors have just voted themselves a huge pay increase.
36. I have had the good fortune to work with some brilliant directors.
37. The director coaxed a brilliant performance out of the cast.
38. The director is under increasing pressure to resign.
39. I should like to apply for the position of Sales Director.
40. At the meeting the finance director produced the figures for the previous year.
41. The directors are responsible for preparing the company's financial statements.
42. She is thought of as a possible director.
43. His colleagues see him as a future director.
44. The director was not available for comment.
45. They launched a frontal attack on company directors.
46. One former director embezzled $34 million in company funds.
47. The new director has really got things moving.