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Definition of Directive

1. Adjective. Showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on. "The directional role of science on industrial progress"

2. Noun. A pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity. "The boss loves to send us directives"

Definition of Directive

1. a. Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.

Definition of Directive

1. Noun. An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal. ¹

2. Noun. An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force. ¹

3. Noun. (context: European Union law) A form of legislative act addressed to the Member States. The directive binds the Member State to reach certain objectives in their national legislation. ¹

4. Adjective. that directs ¹

5. Adjective. serving to direct, indicate, or guide. ¹

6. Adjective. (grammar) relating to the directive case ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Directive

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Directive

directing direction direction finder directional directional antenna directional atherectomy directional cloning directional stability directionality directionally

directionals directionless directionlessly directionlessness directions directive (current term) directive psychotherapy directives directivities directivity

directly proportional directness directnesses director director's cut director's cuts director-general director-stockholder relation director of research

Literary usage of Directive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Germany, Garbage and the Green Dot: Challenging the Throwaway Society by Bette K. Fishbein (1996)
"The outcome may be affected by the EC Packaging directive, as described in the ... EC Packaging directive After four years of wrangling, the EC Council of ..."

2. Navigational and Surveying Instruments: Industry and Trade Summaryby Sundar A. Shetty by Sundar A. Shetty (1994)
"Portugal's failure to implement this directive may result from a general delay in issuance of a Portuguese ministerial decree setting limits and guidance ..."

3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1833)
"Observations and Experiments on the Daily Variation of the Horizontal and Dipping Needles under a reduced directive Power. By Peter Barlow, Esq. FRS of the ..."

4. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1832)
"Thin, slender needles have the greatest directive powers, and are most sensible, since they undergo less friction than those which are heavier, ..."

5. The Journal of General Physiology by Society of General Physiologists, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"In preceding papers it has been shown that gravity has a directive influence on the arrangement of certain organs in the regeneration of ..."

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