directories

Noun

directory (plural directories)

1. A list of names, addresses etc, of specific classes of people or organizations, often in alphabetical order or in some classification.
   • look up an address in the directory
2. A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
3. A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other directories may be stored. The files and subdirectories in a directory are usually related.

   Synonyms:

   folder

4. A form of government with a collegial executive whose members jointly exercise power; the executive of such a government.
   • […] at the Ufa State Conference it was it was the union's conception of a directory (rather than a dictatorship) to rule anti-Bolshevik Russia that won the day.2015, Jonathan D. Smele, Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926, →ISBN, Union for the Return to the Motherland, page 1243

   Synonyms:

   directorate

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