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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
directive
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
authoritative
▪ When this happens the authoritative directive does make a difference.
▪ Where there is a co-ordination problem the issuing of an authoritative directive can supply the missing link in the argument.
▪ Such authoritative directives provide the subjects with reasons which they did not have before.
▪ Since it gives one an additional reason to respect authoritative directives it affects all one's encounters with authority.
▪ Reasons which authoritative directives should, but fail to, reflect are none the less among the reasons which justify holding the directives binding.
▪ The last concerns the way the existence of a binding authoritative directive affects the reasoning of the subjects of the authority.
▪ It speaks of authoritative directives being based on or reflecting reasons which apply to their subjects in any case.
▪ But since not every authority is legitimate not every authoritative directive is a reason for action.
new
▪ The new directive covers classification, packaging and labelling and seeks to introduce Community-wide rules on notification of production or importation.
▪ Britain also objected to the new directive on maternity leave.
▪ A Bios conference, Development and implementation of the new device directives, will be held in London on 12 May 1992.
▪ Three convictions-including the latest-came after the new directive was made law.
▪ Unanimity is still required for a new commission tax directive to be approved within two years.
▪ The new directive reflects President Mohammad Khatami's liberalisation programme.
■ NOUN
draft
▪ Next month the commission plans to publish two draft directives on this topic.
▪ The draft directive is likely to be adopted by Council in the autumn and would not come into force before 1993.
▪ The original draft directive proposed that advertising should be limited to the sort of details a business card carries.
▪ But the Commission is at work on a draft directive that would require up-to-date pollution controls in new factories.
▪ Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly.
■ VERB
adopt
▪ The council is unlikely to adopt the directive formally much before the end of this year.
follow
▪ Burton had once again followed the directive of an older man.
implement
▪ The government originally promised to publish a consultation document on how it proposed to implement the directive by autumn 1992.
issue
▪ The Commission and/or the Council of Ministers could formally issue regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions.
▪ Already a number of police forces have issued directives against discrimination making it inevitable that Darlington police will have a homosexual policeman.
▪ It is often the proper job of authorities to issue directives for this purpose.
▪ Similarly, social workers were issued with handbooks and directives about the correct procedure to follow when investigating cases of suspected abuse.
▪ It does not issue directives on how records should be kept or maintained.
require
▪ Most communications are later backed up by directives, which require member states to ensure that their legal systems comply.
▪ But the Commission is at work on a draft directive that would require up-to-date pollution controls in new factories.
▪ The directive requires, interalia, that compilers of personal data require the consent of the data subject for inclusion.
▪ The directive will require mutual recognition of the various regulatory systems, and lay down general principles for national supervisors.
▪ The directive requires more stringent risk assessments before GMOs are released and close monitoring afterwards.
▪ The directive requires member states to establish systems for the national regulation of releases.
▪ The Commission claims that the government has breached the directive which requires an assessment of the environmental impact of major projects.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All government agencies received a directive to reduce their staffs and cut costs by 20%.
▪ Article 10 of the directive requires all food to be clearly labelled.
▪ Under an EC directive unleaded petrol must be made available throughout Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As an aspect of culture, roles provide an important part of the guidelines and directives necessary for an ordered society.
▪ If no accord is reached by Friday, the directive will die anyway, under a time limit rule.
▪ The directive requires member states to establish systems for the national regulation of releases.
▪ The confused evidence suggests they are acting on their own initiative, not on directives from East Berlin to play for time.
▪ The council is unlikely to adopt the directive formally much before the end of this year.
▪ Values provide general guidelines for behaviour and they are translated into more specific directives in terms of roles and norms.
▪ What point has an ethical directive to pursue the general happiness addressed to beings who will necessarily seek only their own?
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is important in these cases that doctors take a less directive approach.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Because she wants to take a directive study.
▪ In some instances, our recommendations are highly directive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Directive

Directive \Di*rect"ive\, a. [LL. directivus: cf. F. directif.]

  1. Having power to direct; tending to direct, guide, or govern; showing the way.
    --Hooker.

    The precepts directive of our practice in relation to God.
    --Barrow.

  2. Able to be directed; manageable. [Obs.]

    Swords and bows Directive by the limbs.
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
directive

mid-15c., from Medieval Latin directivus, from past participle stem of Latin dirigere (see direct (v.)). From 1640s as a noun.

Wiktionary
directive

a. 1 that directs 2 serving to direct, indicate, or guide. 3 (context grammar English) relating to the directive case n. 1 An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal. 2 An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force. 3 (context European Union law English) A form of legislative act addressed to the Member States. The directive binds the Member State to reach certain objectives in their national legislation. 4 The directive case.

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WordNet
directive

  1. adj. showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the directional role of science on industrial progress" [syn: directing, directional, guiding]

  2. n. a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity; "the boss loves to send us directives"

Wikipedia
Directive (European Union)

A directive is a legal act of the European Union, which requires member states to achieve a particular result without dictating the means of achieving that result. It can be distinguished from regulations which are self-executing and do not require any implementing measures. Directives normally leave member states with a certain amount of leeway as to the exact rules to be adopted. Directives can be adopted by means of a variety of legislative procedures depending on their subject matter.

Directive

Directive may refer to:

  • Directive (European Union), a legislative act of the European Union
  • Directives, used by United States government agencies (particularly the United States Department of Defense) to convey policies, responsibilities, and procedures
  • Directive (programming) in a computer program or associated with compiling a program
  • A particular kind of speech act which causes the hearer to take a particular action
  • Directive case, a grammatical case
  • "Directive" (poem), a poem by Robert Frost
Directive (programming)

In computer programming, a directive pragma (from "pragmatic") is a language construct that specifies how a compiler (or assembler or interpreter) should process its input. Directives are not part of the language proper – they are not part of the grammar, and may vary from compiler to compiler – but instead function either as an in-band form of a command-line option, specifying compiler behavior, or are processed by a preprocessor. In some cases directives specify global behavior, while in other cases they only affect a local section, such as a block of programming code. In some cases, such as some C pragmas, directives are optional compiler hints, and may be ignored, but normally they are prescriptive, and must be followed. However, a directive does not perform any action in the language itself, but rather only a change in the behavior of the compiler.

This term could be used to refer to proprietary third party tags and commands (or markup) embedded in code that result in additional executable processing that extend the existing compiler, assembler and language constructs present in the development environment. The term "directive" is also applied in a variety of ways that are similar to the term command.

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Usage examples of "directive".

It took time for them to respond to the commands and directives of those abiding within them.

Switzerland utterly unlike anywhere else - looks incompatible with the acquis communautaire, the fourteen hundred or so regulations and directives, which membership of the European Union demands.

It was as if the King had made his decision and summoned Dor for this directive, rather than merely granting an audience.

These advisory and directive professions probably number two or three times as big a proportion of the whole population as the lawyers, educationists and doctors of the nineteenth century.

Less than a minute later, this directive was carried out and Foard was instructed to pick up the nearest telephone handset.

All these forms of recrystallization within the community, large and small, arose because of the inadaptability and want of vigour and cooperation in the formal governing, economically directive and educational systems.

Admiral John Poindexter, the calm, pipe-smoking national security adviser, explained now to the participants that earlier in the year, on January 17, 1986, the president had signed a formal top-secret intelligence directive.

Reichstag that he would respect the Locarno Pact and the territorial clauses of Versailles, General von Blomberg had issued his first directive to the three armed services to prepare plans for the reoccupation of the demilitarized Rhineland.

Diamond and his modest staff walked into the Center carrying orders and directives that gave the Mother Company total control over all operations touching, either directly or tangentially, the oil-producing nations.

Our defensive lines in Russia, properly shortened and reinforced under Directive Number 39, would have held toughly and bathed the Russian earth in Bolshevik blood.

No one objected to his directives, relieved to know what they were to do, and Webb suddenly found himself taking charge.

Strasbourg has been completely dissolved in accordance with the directive.

House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, Hearings, 98th Cong.

House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, 89th Cong.

Burma, I have recently requested the Generalissimo to continue reinforcing the Burma front and to permit Stilwell to make co-operative arrangements relative command according to the principles laid down in his original directive approved by the Combined Chiefs of Staff.