MANAGING DIRECTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does managing director mean? 

• MANAGING DIRECTOR (noun)
  The noun MANAGING DIRECTOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who controls resources and expenditures

  Familiarity information: MANAGING DIRECTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANAGING DIRECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who controls resources and expenditures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

director; manager; managing director

Hypernyms ("managing director" is a kind of...):

administrator; decision maker (someone who administers a business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "managing director"):

bank manager (manager of a branch office of a bank)

district manager (a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district)

manageress (a woman manager)

 Context examples 

My brother, Harry Pinner, is promoter, and joins the board after allotment as managing director.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You are two friends of mine who are in want of a billet, and what could be more natural than that I should bring you both round to the managing director?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A coat and waistcoat were lying on the floor, and from a hook behind the door, with his own braces round his neck, was hanging the managing director of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)