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directive
English
Etymology
From Middle French directif. The noun senses are from French directive (feminine form of the adjective).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /da????k.t?v/, /d????k.t?v/
- (US) IPA(key): /d????k.t?v/
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
Adjective
directive (not comparable)
- that directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide
- 2002, Colin Gray, Enterprise and Culture (page 54)
- A directive management style is stronger among owners with 'lifestyle' as a business objective than among those with business/economic objectives.
- 2002, Colin Gray, Enterprise and Culture (page 54)
- (grammar) relating to the directive case
Related terms
- directively
- directiveness
Translations
Noun
directive (plural directives)
- An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
- (programming) A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run.
- An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
- (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.
- (grammar) The directive case.
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.??k.tiv/
- Rhymes: -iv
- Homophone: directives
Adjective
directive
- feminine singular of directif
Noun
directive f (plural directives)
- directive, general instructions, guideline
Further reading
- “directive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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authority
English
Alternative forms
- authourity, authoritie, autority, auctoritie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auct?rit?s (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???????ti/, /???????ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /??????ti/, /??????ti/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /???t???ti/
- Hyphenation: au?thor?i?ty
- Rhymes: -???ti
Noun
authority (countable and uncountable, plural authorities)
- (uncountable) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V
- (used in singular or plural form) Persons in command; specifically, government.
- (countable) A person accepted as a source of reliable information on a subject.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.
- 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
- Government-owned agency which runs a revenue-generating activity.
- New York Port Authority
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- have something on good authority
References
- authority at OneLook Dictionary Search
- authority in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- authority in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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