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Noun: director  dI'rek-tu(r) or di'rek-tu(r)
  1. Someone who controls resources and expenditures
    - manager, managing director
     
  2. Member of a board of directors
     
  3. Someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
    - theater director [US], theatre director
     
  4. The person who directs the making of a film
    - film director, helmer [N. Amer, informal], movie director [N. Amer]
     
  5. The person who leads a musical group
    - conductor, music director, kapellmeister

Derived forms: directors

Type of: administrator, committee member, decision maker, film maker, film producer, filmmaker, movie maker, musician, overlooker, supervisor

Part of: board

Encyclopedia: Director, Operational Test and Evaluation