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# director

noun (a director, directors)

«director» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A director is the person in charge of making a film, play or TV programme who tells the actors and crew what to do. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#m1)
2. A director is one of the people who run a company or a large organisation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#m2)
3. A director is the head of a department or project: "the museum director", "the director of music". [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#m3)

### In the lessons

In stories and media lessons, the director decides how a film or play looks. In everyday life companies have a board of directors. In school, a "funeral director" is a polite name for an undertaker. Phrases: film director, managing director, board of directors, director of studies, funeral director.

### Examples

- The director shouted "Action!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x1)
- Our music teacher is the director of the school choir. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x2)
- Steven Spielberg is a famous film director. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x3)
- The company has five directors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x4)
- The museum director showed us the dinosaur bones. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x5)
- The funeral director arranged everything kindly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x6)
- She wants to be a theatre director when she grows up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x7)
- He was a director of a theatre, a manager of masked balls, and a leader of all the amusements we can imagine. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/#x8)

### Note

Countable: a director, directors. Ends in -or, not -er. Related: direct, direction. In the UK "managing director" is the boss of a company; in the USA they often say "CEO".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «director» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/director/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«director» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/director.html) on Mova free.