noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a board of directors/trustees
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The board of directors met yesterday.
a company director/executive
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He earns a huge amount of money as a senior company executive.
a film director
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This year’s festival includes a tribute to the French film director Bertrand Tavernier.
a movie director
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He and his wife are both movie directors.
a television director
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He’s a very successful television director.
art director
deputy director/chairman/governor etc
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the Deputy Secretary of State
Director of Studies
director's chair
director's cut
funeral director
make it to manager/director etc
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How did anyone so stupid make it to manager?
managing director
non-executive director
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
artistic
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The age of those mighty, entrepreneurial artistic directors has probably come to an end.
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Not unnaturally, its organiser, Paul Onoratini, and its artistic director , Rene
assistant
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Before that she was a divisional director in Berkshire and assistant director in Reading County Borough.
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Bonanni, the former assistant director for Installations and Logistics.
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The assistant director called Brando who ignored him.
athletic
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Lorenzo, this is Wayne Wright, athletic director at Pepperdine.
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Jody had never been a head coach, but the athletic director at Oregon felt she had it in her.
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The athletic director renewed his efforts to force the university to remove the sculpture.
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The five-year extension takes Mathews through the 2002-2003 season, athletic director Bill Hogan said.
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If the appeal ever happens, it will be the first in school history, according to associate athletic director Kevin Reneau.
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He is offensive coordinator and acting athletic director at South Mountain High.
deputy
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Barrie Catchpole, a director of Quilter Goodison, will become deputy managing director.
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Both the executive director of the agency and the deputy executive director are black.
executive
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John Akker is the executive director of Near.
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The role of chief executive has gone to executive director , Mr Joe Stevenson.
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Six years after its founding, she became its executive director .
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Suzanne Strassburger, executive director of the association, did not return calls yesterday.
general
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The pros and cons of three possible posts were considered - commercial manager, general manager or director of coaching.
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From his public comments it even mystifies the general director , Jeremy Isaacs, the star of the show.
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The general director , Evvy Edwards, was recruited to administer the Halls in 1990.
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He retired as general director of the Mission in 1902.
managing
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It's all very mysterious - why, for instance, does Cape still need a managing director but not Chatto?
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Royden Axe, managing director , Design Research Associates.
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He became managing director of Esso in 1968 and was chairman from 1972 to 1980.
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But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director .
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B was the managing director of the plaintiffs.
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It gave Brian McMaster, the company's managing director , the worst night he has ever had.
new
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The future of new director general John Birt is in question because of his taxation arrangements.
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Within the year, the new development director had brought in three times her salary.
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Trustees representing substantial Ferranti family interests wrote to Sir Derek asking for the board to be replaced or supplemented by new directors .
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After passing a State board licensing examination, new funeral directors may join the staff of a funeral home.
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To the new directors Because you are new in the Opera House, I am writing to tell you some important things.
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Supple told committee members that the university is currently searching for a new athletic director .
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Mayne Nickless' new managing director , Bob Dalziel, will join the company on Monday.
regional
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Neither he nor his peers were surprised when the regional director asked him to consider a management career.
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Ian Frost, regional director of Inntrepreneur, said the leases offered big advantages over the short-term agreements.
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An elected health commissioner would run the system with an appointed medical advisory board and regional directors .
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A new united sales team for East Anglia is in place reporting to regional director .
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Then the final choice lies with their regional directors .
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Each region has a director and all the regional directors meet together as the Branches Committee.
■ NOUN
art
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So an illustration may offer far wider possibilities for the art director to achieve special effects and a distinctive style.
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When he awoke, he found himself in San Francisco -- as the art director of a ballet magazine.
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Phil Bicker, our art director , never goes home. 9.
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Do not let your editor or art director unduly influence you.
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Leaver, then camping out on Oz art director Jonathan Goodchild's floor, joined the staff.
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It aims to give writers and art directors a thorough grounding of the advertising business and valuable first-hand experience.
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For some years now, writer and art director have been considered as equal partners working closely together.
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A good production person must keep up with every development and ideally acquaint the art directors with every one as well.
associate
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Future Systems has appointed three new associate directors .
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Gross is an associate director at Woodbourne.
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He later became associate director of circulation planning and vice president and business manager.
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Early in the setup of the Northwest Respirator Center he hired Dunning to work as his part-time associate director .
company
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This listed the names of oil company directors who may have committed offences.
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Statistics show that one in every three company directors aged 40 will die before reaching age 65.
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The Review Panel now inspires real fear in company directors .
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High-powered females, at that: these were company directors , partners, owner-managers and senior civil servants.
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Reading Company Reports Like computer people and bank managers, company directors have a language of their own.
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He was saved when company director dad Paul, 42, looked in by chance.
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In addition, senior executives are largely drawn from the same narrow background as company directors .
film
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There are few film directors who can resist a good car chase.
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And sometimes, he even toys with his long-running fantasy of dropping out of the business and becoming a film director .
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So was film director Oliver Stone.
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And those vignettes were made by local college students working with an award-winning independent film director .
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Now the legendary film director wants Sam to fly to New York for a second interview next week.
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Cleese, 52, fell for her after his divorce two years ago from his second wife, film director Barbara Trentham.
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The usually private Sporty Spice posed hand-in-hand with film director Dan Cadan.
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This film director , Bella Kropotkin, was undoubtedly after him, and undoubtedly he would take advantage of it - tonight!
finance
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Mr Dignum, 52, has been group financial director since 1988 and was appointed finance director of the stores in January.
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In a recent survey, finance directors were asked what change they would most like to see in corporate governance.
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Colin was fulsome in his praise of the role of finance directors in delivering a near impossible set of financial reforms.
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Vince Luck was brought in as finance director from Northern Foods.
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As trade in services soars, taxmen will find it harder to keep up with clever finance directors .
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New director: Michael Taylor has been appointed to the board of Northumbrian Water as finance director.
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Mr Taylor was formerly group finance director of chemical and timber protection group, Hickson International.
funeral
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Some funeral directors will assist in do-it-yourself funerals by supplying a simple coffin and dealing with the documentation. 4.
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To show proper respect and consideration for the families and the dead, funeral directors must dress appropriately.
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The Independent Television Commission have now removed the ban on funeral directors .
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Employment Funeral directors held about 26, 000 jobs in 1994.
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Yet Scudamore concerns himself only with temporary preservation related to the needs and requirements of the modern funeral director .
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It can be seen at Citizens Advice Bureaux, or at funeral directors who are members of the Association.
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To unburden themselves of arranging and directing these tasks, grieving families turn to funeral directors .
marketing
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But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director .
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The effects of inflation are not limited to the shopping basket, says Raoul Pinnell, Prudential's marketing director .
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The relaunch expenses paid off, doubling sales at many outlets, according to marketing director Peter Holmes.
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Other examples in the 1980s include information technology directors , marketing directors, sales directors or, indeed, human resources directors.
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Robin Whitbread, marketing director , was voted Marketer of the Year.
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So the marketing director enters a coalition with the research director to pressure the boss to allocate more resources to product design.
■ VERB
appoint
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Future Systems has appointed three new associate directors .
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Sheila Tindle, 28, has been appointed a local director at the Middlesbrough offices of stockbroker Wise Speke.
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Eventually Powell was appointed director of the U.S.
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William Denny was appointed as the director to represent the family's interests.
become
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The idea that he should become a director came from Edwards.
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He grew up at the club before becoming its director in 1957.
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He wanted to train as a chartered accountant with the ultimate aim of becoming a managing director .
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The foundation merged with the new arts center when it opened in October 1994 and Shaw became museum director .
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Joy Colthup, course leader, general studies, becomes director of studies, enrichment.
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Three years later he was assigned to be deputy director of the Office of Space Systems and became its director in 1969.
board
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As a practical matter, boards of directors are reasonably safe from being thrown out by the stockholders.
manage
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Stanley Druckenmiller, managing director of Soros' funds, also was to have spoken during the panel discussion.
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Weisenburger also is managing director of Wasserstein Perella, which stands to make close to $ 200 million on its 1990 investment.
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Warrington Council has been given a detailed presentation on Liverpool's proposals by airport managing director Rod Hill.
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Henry Fan, managing director of Citic, said the company is changing its focus as it shifts assets.
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Green, a managing director of the Washington office of Lehman Brothers Inc., could not be reached for comment.
market
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He made his son vice president and his daughter marketing director .
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And to marketing director Elizabeth Carduff, whose support and deep-felt response to this book has turned business into pure pleasure.
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He began his career as corporate marketing director for Booth Newspapers.
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The client Merrill is a 32-year-old marketing director at an East Bay company.
say
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Offhand, I would say a company director .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acting manager/head teacher/director etc
assistant manager/director/cook etc
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Employment Hotel managers and assistant managers held about 105, 000 wage and salary jobs in 1994.
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He started at the Town House in 1991, working as assistant manager from 1997 to 1999.
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He worked his way up from kitchen porter, assistant cook, employment at a casino and by painting and decorating.
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Hotel managers and assistant managers strive to ensure their guests will have a pleasant stay.
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One of his teammates will be former Darlington assistant manager Tony McAndrew.
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She and assistant manager Lance Green had been instructed to improve profits at the expense of Burger King.
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The, the, the late director was pushed and knocked down I guess when he was assistant director.
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West Ham's assistant manager Harry Redknapp has been another victim of a fans' fit-up.
associate member/director/head etc
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Early in the setup of the Northwest Respirator Center he hired Dunning to work as his part-time associate director.
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Gross is an associate director at Woodbourne.
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He later became associate director of circulation planning and vice president and business manager.
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Mike McCarthy is associate director, head of sixth-form studies.
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The aim is now to change the constitution to elect four associate members on to a management committee.
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These activities are available when you join the society as an associate member.
emeritus professor/director etc
professor/director etc emeritus
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Ben Bagdikian, professor emeritus , University of California, Berkeley.
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He retired in 1964 with the title professor emeritus of the University of London.
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Nathan Keyfitz, a professor emeritus of sociology and population at Harvard University, has spent considerable time analyzing the debate.
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Noel Timms is professor emeritus , University of Leicester.
the retiring president/manager/director etc
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Finally, on November 24, he took over the reins of the Puzzle Palace from the retiring director.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dr Jane Wilde, director of the Health Promotion Agency
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Have you met the new finance director ?
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Miller has been appointed to the position of sales director .
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The directors are meeting today to discuss the company's future.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As art gallery director , Alistair will be served one.
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For youngsters in particular the personality of the director is as important as any musical qualifications.
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Many said the special effects, a hallmark of director Steven Spielberg, were amazing.
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The director keeps his audience off-balance.
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The Alley has undergone a rebirth under Boyd, who became artistic director in 1989.
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This demonstrates how difficult it has become to determine the real incomes of such highly paid directors.