Directive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An order or instruction, especially one issued by a central authority.
  • adj. Serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
  • n. An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
  • n. A form of legislative act addressed to the Member States. The directive binds the Member State to reach certain objectives in their national legislation.
  • n. The directive case.
  • adj. that directs
  • adj. serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
  • adj. relating to the directive case
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
  • adj. Able to be directed; manageable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having the power of directing; causing to take or occupy a certain direction.
  • Pointing out the proper direction; guiding; prescribing; indicating.
  • Capable of being directed, managed, or handled.
  • Dealing with direction: as, directive algebra.
  • n. In grammar, a syntactic case expressing direction toward an object: also called transitional.
  • n. In a sea-anemone or coral polyp, a mesentery which forms one of the boundaries of the intermesenteric space at one of the poles of the principal axis.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on
  • n. a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity
    • Equivalent
    leading   
    Cross Reference
    directive action force    directive corpuscle   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    manageable   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    affective    anti-infective    collective    connective    convective   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    guideline    priority    mandate    authorization    injunction   
     
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