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director general
noun
- the executive head of an organization or of a major subdivision, as a branch or agency, of government.
director-general
noun
- the head of a large organization such as the CBI or BBC
Word History and Origins
Origin of director general1
Example Sentences
Now her left-wing Podemos Party is in power in Spain, and she’s holding her government accountable to its promises, as director general for equality of treatment and ethnic-racial diversity at the country’s Ministry of Equality.
“As far as I know, we have not received anything so far,” said Dr Nutan Mundeja, director general of health services, Delhi government.
The World Health Organization promised to do “everything we can” after its director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the situation as “beyond heartbreaking.”
The WHO’s director general later walked that statement back, claiming that “all hypotheses remain open and require further analysis and studies.”
Prime Minister Abe is not only the leader of Japan, he is also the Director-General—the sosai —of the LDP.
The Director General said he suspected the skulls [were] from the Congo.
So did Avigdor Lieberman, director-general of the Prime Minister's Office during part of Netanyahu's first term.
Pervez Musharraf made him director general of the ISI in 2004.
March 19, 2012: Thompson announces he will leave the BBC the coming fall after eight years as director general.
During the peace he continued in military employment, and in 1719 he was made director-general of cavalry and dragoons.
At the end of my first year as director general I had not made one-tenth the progress I had hoped for.
He believed, if he could get an interview with the Medical Director-General, he could convince him of its merits.
On my arrival I found M. Necker Director-general of the finances, in the first bloom of power and popularity.
The director-general retained the right to preside at meetings.
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