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noun someone who controls resources and expenditures
noun member of a board of directors
noun someone who supervises the actors and directs the action in the production of a show
originBorrowed from Middle French directeur and its source Late Latin dīrēctōrem, from Latin dīrēctus. By surface analysis, direct + -or.
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