Synonyms for director
dɪˈrɛk tər, daɪ-di·rec·tor

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1. director

   Synonyms:
   ruler, controller, manager, master, leader, guide

   Antonyms:
   body, company, institution, concern, subordinate, follower

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1. director, manager, managing directornoun

   someone who controls resources and expenditures

   Synonyms:
   conductor, theater director, managing director, manager, film director, theatre director, music director, handler, coach

2. directornoun

   member of a board of directors

   Synonyms:
   theatre director, conductor, theater director, managing director, manager, music director, film director

3. director, theater director, theatre directornoun

   someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show

   Synonyms:
   conductor, theater director, managing director, manager, film director, theatre director, music director

4. film director, directornoun

   the person who directs the making of a film

   Synonyms:
   conductor, theater director, managing director, manager, film director, theatre director, music director

5. conductor, music director, directornoun

   the person who leads a musical group

   Synonyms:
   conductor, theater director, managing director, manager, film director, theatre director, music director

Matched Categories

1. • Committee Member
   • Film Maker

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1. impresario

   direct people

   Submitted by rinat on August 20, 2019  

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1. directornoun

   Synonyms:
   superintendent, manager, BOSS

2. directornoun

   Synonyms:
   guide, counsellor, adviser, instructor, mentor, monitor

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1. List of paraphrases for "director":

   steering, manager, directeur, chief, warden, superintendent, directors, administrator, directrice, head, headmaster, officer, direktor, guiding, master, directora, principal, headmistress, director-, director-general, registrar, governing, filmmaker, editor, officers

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1. State Frank LaRose:

   What the health director has is broad authority to protect the health of Ohioans.

2. Charles Chester:

   I’ve been in the room many times where my director tells me to take it down, and I take it down, and then we get a phone call, the batphone rings in the back, literally a red phone, like the special red phone rings, and they pick it up and this producerpicks it up ...every so often they put it on speaker, and it’s like the head of the network being like, ‘There’s nothing that you’re doing right now that makes me want to stick, put the numbers back up, because that’s the most enticing thing that we had,’.

3. Peter Jackson:

   Every time you make a movie it's like going to film school, so if I make a' Tintin' film next year or the year after it will be a different movie to what I would have made before' The Hobbit', the best films of any director's career should be the ones just when he's old enough to be old but before he gets a little bit vague.

4. Governor DeWine:

   During this time when we face an unprecedented public health crisis, to conduct an election tomorrow would would force poll workers and voters to place themselves at a unacceptable health risk of contracting coronavirus, as Health Director Dr. Amy Acton will order the polls closed as a health emergency. While the polls will be closed tomorrow, Secretary of State Frank LaRose will seek a remedy through the courts to extend voting options so that every voter who wants to vote will be granted that opportunity.

5. Bob Corker:

   While the case for removal of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey laid out by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein was thorough, his removal at this particular time will raise questions, it is essential that ongoing investigations are fulsome and free of political interference until their completion, and it is imperative that President Trump nominate a well-respected and qualified individual to lead the bureau at this critical time.