direct-eur, n.m., -rice, n.f., director, manager, superintendent, overseer, conductor; directress, conductress; warden, master, principal. — de la monnaie; master of the mint. — général des postes; postmaster general.
direction, n.f., direction, management, directorship; director’s house or office; (math.) bearing; (mining) stretch; bearing. Avoir la —; to preside. — de créanciers; meeting of creditors. Biens en —; goods placed under the control of assignees.
directoire, n.m., directory, rubric; guide; the supreme executive council of France in 1795.
directorat, n.m., directorship, directorate.
directorial, -e, adj., directorial.
dirigeant, -e (-jān, -t), adj., directing, leading, acting.
diriger, v.a., to direct; to guide, to conduct, to manage; to steer, to govern; (of troops) to forward, send off, despatch. — des poursuites contre; to take proceedings against.
se diriger, v.r., to direct one’s steps, to go towards; to make for; to take pattern from; to direct, to govern, one’s self; (nav.) to stand in.
dirimant, -e, adj., (canon law) invalidating. Empêchement —; an impediment that invalidates a marriage.
dirimer, v.a., to invalidate, to annul.