director

Roget category 694

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.3. Voluntary action
›› 5.3.2. Complex voluntary action

#694. Director

noun

director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller.
superintendent, supervisor, straw boss — intendant — overseer, overlooker^† — supercargo^†, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile^† — moderator, monitor, taskmaster — master etc. 745 — leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman^†, precentor^†, bellwether, agitator — caporal^†, choregus^†, collector, file leader, flugelman^†, linkboy^†.
guiding star etc. (guidance) 693 — adviser etc. 695 — guide etc. (information) 527 — pilot — helmsman — steersman, steermate^† — wire-puller.
driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer — coachman, carman, cabman — postilion, vetturino^†, muleteer, arriero^†, teamster — whipper in.
head, head man, head center, boss — principal, president, speaker — chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson — captain etc. (master) 745 — superior — mayor etc. (civil authority) 745 — vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch^†.
officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist^†, bureaucrat — man in office, Jack in office — office bearer — person in authority etc. 745.
statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist^†, statemonger^† — Minos, Draco — arbiter etc. (judge) 967 — boss [U.S.], political dictator.
board etc. (council) 696.
secretary, secretary of state — Reis Effendi — vicar etc. (deputy) 759 — steward, factor — agent etc. 758 — bailiff, middleman — foreman, clerk of works — landreeve^† — factotum, major-domo^†, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier — proctor, procurator.

adverb

ex officio.

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