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

694. Director.

   NOUN:DIRECTOR, manager, governor, rector [rare], controller, comptroller; superintendent, supervisor; intendant; overseer, overlooker; supercargo, husband [archaic], inspector, foreman, ganger [Eng.], visitor, ranger, surveyor, ædile or edile [Rom. hist.], moderator, monitor, taskmaster; master [See Master]; leader, ringleader, agitator, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bell-wether; caporal [F.], choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy.
  GUIDING STAR (guidance) [See Direction]; adviser [See Advice]; guide (information) [See Information]; pilot; helmsman; steersman, steersmate [obs.]; wire-puller.
  DRIVER, whip, jehu [humorous], charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion, vetturino [It.], muleteer, arriero [Sp.], teamster; whipper-in; chauffeur, motorman, engine-driver.
  HEAD, headman, chief, principal, president, speaker; chair, chairman; captain (master) [See Master]; superior; mayor (civil authority) [See Master]; vice-president, prime minister, premier, vizier or vizir, grand vizier, eparch.
  OFFICER, functionary, minister, official, red-tape, red-tapist, bureaucrat; Jack in office; office bearer, office holder; person in authority [See Master].
  STATESMAN, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist [rare], statemonger; Minos, Draco; arbiter (judge) [See Judge]; boss [slang, U. S.], political dictator, power behind the throne, kingmaker; secretary, – of state; Reis Effendi; vicar (deputy) [See Deputy]; board (council) [See Council].
  STEWARD, factor; agent [See Consignee]; bailiff, middleman; clerk of works; landreeve; factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd; croupier; proctor, procurator, curator, librarian.
   ADVERB:ex officio.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Drest in a little brief authority.—Shakespeare
2. It is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it as a giant.—Pope