directeur
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French directeur.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
directeur m (plural directeurs, diminutive directeurtje n, feminine directrice)
- director, manager in a company, general manager, CEO or at lower (e.g. branch) level
- director, person in charge of various other institutions
- director or manager, who has an executive mandate within an institution, e.g. for HR
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DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: direkteur
- → Caribbean Javanese: dirèktir, dirèktur
- → Indonesian: direktur
- → Papiamentu: dirèktùr
- → Sranan Tongo: driktoro, dikketoro, driektoro
- → Saramaccan: dikitóo
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Late Latin director, directōrem, from Latin directus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
directeur (feminine directrice, masculine plural directeurs, feminine plural directrices)
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
directeur m (plural directeurs, feminine directrice)
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DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “directeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.