director: translation
noun
1 controls a company/an organization
ADJECTIVE
▪ company, managing
▪ executive, non-executive
▪ assistant, associate, deputy
▪ senior
▪ Alan Watt, senior director of marketing and strategy
▪ founding
▪ She is the founding director of graduate programs.
▪ acting, interim
▪ Ms Hidden has replaced her as acting director.
▪ art, commercial, communications, editorial, finance, marketing, medical, production, sales, technical
▪ national, regional
▪ the company's regional director in North America
▪ athletic
▪ He was athletic director of Mills College.
▪ personnel
▪ the company's personnel director
▪ museum
▪ an eminent museum director and curator
▪ programme/program (esp.AmE)
▪ Fred Madison, technology program director for the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corp.
PHRASES
▪ the board of directors
▪ the post of director (esp. BrE)
2 of a film/movie, play, etc.
ADJECTIVE
▪ film (esp. BrE), movie (esp. AmE), theatre/theater
▪ Bollywood, Hollywood, etc.
▪ artistic, creative, musical
▪ casting
▪ I got a call from the casting director asking me to do a part.
▪ associate
▪ He became associate director of California Ballet in 1983.
▪ programme/program
▪ Milberg is the station manager and programme/program director at WDAM Radio.
▪ award-winning
PHRASES
▪ the role of director
▪ He now felt ready to take on the role of director.