managing director

English

Alternative forms

• MD (initialism)

Noun

managing director (plural managing directors)

1. The chief executive of a limited company.
   • 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 31:

     But the picture was different elsewhere - Theatre Royal Windsor recorded full houses, although the managing director stated that the actors had trouble getting to and from the theatre.

Coordinate terms

• chairperson, chair, chairwoman, chairman (sometimes coinstantial)

Related terms

• board of directors (sometimes holonymous)

Translations

the chief executive of a limited company

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 局長／局长 (zh) (júzhǎng), 老闆／老板 (zh) (lǎobǎn), 經理／经理 (zh) (jīnglǐ), 總經理／总经理 (zh) (zǒngjīnglǐ)

• Czech: jednatel m
• Danish: administrerende direktør c
• Finnish: toimitusjohtaja (fi)
• French: directeur général (fr) m
• German: Geschäftsführer (de) m, Geschäftsführerin (de) f
• Greenlandic: pisortaaneq
• Hungarian: vezérigazgató (hu)
• Irish: stiúrthóir bainisteoireachta m
• Japanese: 常務 (ja) (じょうむ, jōmu), 上司 (ja) (じょうし, jōshi)
• Korean: 상무(常務) (sangmu)
• Malay: pengarah urusan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: administrerende direktør m

  Nynorsk: administrerande direktør m

• Russian: управля́ющий дире́ктор m (upravljájuščij diréktor), управля́ющий (ru) m (upravljájuščij), управля́ющая (ru) f (upravljájuščaja), дире́ктри́са (ru) f (diréktrísa) (rare)
• Spanish: director general m

See also

• board member (sometimes hypernymous)