directive
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6.1
- noun
- /dɪˈrɛktɪv/
- Formal
:
directiva
- The manager issued a directive outlining the new safety procedures for the workplace.
- issue a directive
- adopt a directive
- E.U. directives
There are White House Office of Management and Budget directives on all of those.
- There are White House Office of Management and Budget directives on all of those.
- OK, Lawyers are not needed for an advance directive.
- And we don't really have a focus here because that's an Intel directive.
- And the, the, the DNI could issue some directives that had relatively little additional power.
- I think that's exactly what happened with the Obama directives, you know, implementing large parts of the DREAM Act.
- The data sharing directives are specifying whether our variables are private or shared.
- There had been a directive, secretarial directive that the head of the FDA intervene in the drug approval process.
- It was an EU directive that came to Britain on on pet rules.
- And I'm wondering if they know what your advanced healthcare directive says.
- Where does the so where does the directive come from?
Examples
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The President's first act as Permanent Commander-in-Chief is Directive 17: protect and defend the United States.
Fiction book (1996) -
I have several directives from Washington that will affect you personally.
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I gave you a directive.
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However, the directive having come from the commander... I gave it its due attention.
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So your current directive from the Son of God is as follows:
Fiction book (1994) -
Andy, I have a new directive for you.
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Our director, Hoover, has issued a directive.
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The new directives encourage us to expand our space from the physical into virtual space.
Academic text (2011) -
Following Directive 1010.10, some Navy leaders began to propose policies to reduce smoking among their personnel.
Academic text (2011) -
Your directive today is to rehabilitate 166 and find 172.
Synonyms
∞
3.0
An instruction from someone in power that must be followed
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3.4
An official rule made by an authority
455
1.2
A set of steps that tell you how to do something
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3.7
An order given by someone in authority or a computer instruction
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2.0
An official instruction telling someone what to do
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5.3
An official paper that tells a person or group to do something
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3.5
An official instruction from a court telling someone to do or stop doing something
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8.5
An official order that a government or person in power gives
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7.2
An official order from a person or government in power that people must follow
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7.7
A clear order that someone in charge gives, like a teacher or parent
A formal order from an official used in law or religion
A formal official order given by a church or court
Compounds
- Formal
1
7.3
An official order that the President of the United States gives to federal departments and agencies
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Directive comes from the same root as direct and direction, meaning 'to guide' or 'to point the way', and it became a word for a formal 'direction' from someone in charge. That's why a directive is an official instruction you are expected to follow.