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[ noun ] a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity

Examples

"the boss loves to send us directives"

Used in print

(Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)

Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world , an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies .

2
[ adjective ] showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on

Examples

"felt his mother's directing arm around him" "the directional role of science on industrial progress"

Related terms

leading

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