Usually means: Instruction or order guiding action.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. directive: Merriam-Webster
  2. directive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. directive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. directive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. directive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Directive, directive: Wordnik
  7. directive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. directive: Wiktionary
  9. directive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. directive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. directive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. directive: Dictionary.com
  13. directive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Directive (European Union), Directive (programming), Directive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Directive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. directive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. directive: Rhymezone
  18. Directive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. directive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. directive: FreeDictionary.org
  21. directive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. directive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. directive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. directive: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Directive (European Union), directive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. directive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (directive)

▸ adjective:  That which directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide.
▸ adjective:  (grammar) Relating to the directive case.
▸ noun:  An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal.
▸ noun:  (programming) A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run.
▸ noun:  An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (grammar) The directive case.

Similar:
guiding, leading, directional, directing, deictic, diagnostic, Ind., Det., dem., diag, more...

Opposite:
suggestion, proposal, request, recommendation, inquiry

Phrases:
advance directive, Presidential directive, prime directive, compiler directive, directive therapy, more...

Adjectives:
new, presidential, more, first, prime, general, clear, official, less, second, european

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Similar:
guiding, leading, directional, directing, deictic, diagnostic, Ind., Det., dem., diag, more...

Opposite:
suggestion, proposal, request, recommendation, inquiry

Phrases:
advance directive, Presidential directive, prime directive, compiler directive, directive therapy, medical directive, directive gain, airworthiness directive, proxy directive, advance health care directive, more...

Adjectives:
new, presidential, more, first, prime, general, clear, official, less, second, european

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     gold,     crimson, more...



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