Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section III. Voluntary Action
2. Complex Voluntary Action

693. Direction.

   NOUN:DIRECTION; management, managery [obs.]; government, gubernation [obs.], conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance; bossism [slang, U. S.]; legislature; steerage, pilotage; reins, – of government; helm, rudder, needle, compass; guiding star, lodestar or loadstar, polestar; cynosure.
  ministry, ministration; administration; stewardship, proctorship; chair; agency.
  SUPERVISION, superintendence; surveillance, oversight; eye of the master; control, charge; auspices; board of control (council) [See Council]; command (authority) [See Authority].
  STATESMANSHIP; statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft; premiership, senatorship; director [See Director]; seat, portfolio.
   VERB:DIRECT, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work for; head, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on; regulate, guide, steer, pilot; take the helm, be at the helm; have -, handle -, hold -, take- the reins; drive, tool [cant], tackle.
  SUPERINTEND, supervise; overlook, oversee, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate [obs.]; matronize; patronize; have the -care, – charge- of; have -, take- the direction; pull the -strings, – wires; rule (command) [See Authority]; be the guiding force; have -, hold- -office, – the portfolio; preside, – at the board; take -, occupy -, be in- the chair; pull the stroke oar.
   ADJECTIVE:DIRECTING &c. v.; executive, gubernatorial, supervisory; hegemonic or hegemonical; predominant; statesmanlike.
   ADVERB:IN CHARGE OF, under the guidance of, under the auspices of; in control of, at the helm, at the head of.