directive
/daɪˈɹɛk.tɪv/US/dəˈɹɛk.tɪv/
directive adjective: that which directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
Adjective
directive (not comparable)
- That which directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
- A directive management style is stronger among owners with 'lifestyle' as a business objective than among those with business/economic objectives.2002, Colin Gray, Enterprise and Culture, page 54
- Relating to the directive case.
Noun
directive (plural directives)
- An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
- A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run.
- An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
- A form of legislative act addressed to the member states. The directive binds the member state to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.
- The directive case.
directive meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
directive in Hindi
- instruction or guideline
- अनुदेश anudeś
- authoritative decision
- अनुदेश anudeś
directive in Tamil
- கட்டளை, பொதுவாகக் கட்டளையிடுதல், ஆணையிடுதல், வழிகாட்டு, அறிவுறுத்தல், திசைகொள்கின்ற
directive in Urdu
- ہدایت, حکم, پیام
directive in Bengali
- directive
- আদেশ adeś
More languagesFewer languages
- directive in Malayalam
- നിർദ്ദേശം, ആദേശം, ഉത്തരവ്, മാർഗ്ഗദർശനം
- directive in Kannada
- ತಿಳುವಳಿಕೆ
- directive in Odia
- ନିର୍ଦ୍ଦେଶନାମା
Examples of directive in a sentence
- The issue of the directive from the treasury prompted the central bank's most recent issue of currency.
- The multi-pass compiler skims the source code looking for directives on the first pass.
- I received a directive from home office.
Forms of directive
| plural | directives |
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Origin of directive
From Middle French directif. The noun senses are from French directive (feminine form of the adjective).
Words formed from directive
Phrases with directive
Words that rhyme with directive
- projective
- subjective
- effective
- objective
- prospective
- reflective
- collective
- connective
- defective
- respective
- selective
- injective
28 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- detective
- elective
- irrespective
- perfective
- retrospective
- affective
- bijective
- corrective
- erective
- ineffective
- inflective
- intellective
- intersubjective
- protective
- refective
- advective
- convective
- deflective
- ejective
- imperfective
- infective
- inspective
- introspective
- overprotective
- rejective
- surjective
- unreflective
- unselective
Questions about directive
- What does directive mean?
- Directive means that which directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
- What is directive in Hindi?
- Directive in Hindi is अनुदेश (anudeś). See Directive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is directive?
- Directive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce directive?
- Directive is pronounced /daɪˈɹɛk.tɪv/ (UK).
Words near directive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: directive (page history and authors); directive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); directive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আদেশ (Bengali) (page history and authors); directive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); directive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); directive (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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