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directorial

directorial adjective: of or pertaining to a director.

Adjective

directorial (comparative more directorial, superlative most directorial)

  1. Of or pertaining to a director
    • The Seventies, that most directorial of decades.2011, Kevin Avery, Conversations with Clint: Paul Nelson's Lost Interviews with Clint Eastwood 1979-1983, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 6
    • We cannot afford to disregard the evidence of directorial choices.2014, C. W. Marshall, The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen, Cambridge University Press, page 242
  2. Of or pertaining to administration or to a directorate
    • After very warm debates, the result was, that the directorial minister of Mentz should make the strongest possible representations to the Emperor's principal commissary.1763, Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, The Scots Magazine MDCCLXIII - Volume XXV, self-published, page 52
    • The analysis ... is consistent with the fair treatment of directors and parties affected by directorial behaviour.2002, Vanessa Finch, Corporate Insolvency Law: Perspectives and Principles, Cambridge University Press, page 495

Forms of directorial

comparativemore directorial
superlativemost directorial

Origin of directorial

From Latin dīrēctōrius + -al. By surface analysis, director + -ial.

Words formed from directorial

Words that rhyme with directorial

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Questions about directorial

What does directorial mean?
Directorial means of or pertaining to a director.
What part of speech is directorial?
Directorial is an adjective.

Words near directorial in the dictionary

  1. directorates
  2. directores musices
  3. directoress
  4. directoresses
  5. directoria
  6. directorial
  7. directorially
  8. directories
  9. directorish
  10. directoritis
  11. directorium

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