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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
managing director
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ His position will be general manager, retail, reporting direct to Dymocks' managing director Ken Terry.
▪ How do you feel about Dad appointing Guy managing director?
▪ Mark Hudson, managing director of Kable, agrees.
▪ Mr Giles is the managing director of Waterstones.
▪ Mr Stewart, managing director of Rogerson's Developments, faced no further charges and was released at that stage.
▪ The managing director shuffled some papers in front of him, then began.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
managing director

managing director \managing director\ n. A person who manages a busness though not the owner or chief executive.

Syn: director, manager.

Wiktionary
managing director

n. The chief executive of a limited company

WordNet
managing director

n. someone who controls resources and expenditures [syn: director, manager]

Usage examples of "managing director".

He stepped inside and padded along the Delft blue carpeting, pausing to listen at each office, until he reached the ebony door of managing director Charles-Marie Cruyff.

Tom Arnold will become managing director and Ned Denning and Bob Makins will join the board.

The managing director is an old idiot called Fisher who was brought in for local reasons, but he's retiring next month.

The son of a truck driver, balding with a thick, black, barbershop-quartet mustache, he worked as a senior managing director of the firm.

Gillespie, Managing Director, Cheltenham Racecourse, Tony Hoskins, George and Huw Humphreys, John Irvin, Geoffrey and Jorie Kent, Carl Llewellyn, Roger and Rowena Luard, David Marchwood, Managing Director, Moe't &amp.

He remembered a fund on Wall Street that had taken a hundred-million-dollar hit because its managing director wouldn't back off a position that he'd thought was correct a few days earlier, but then stayed with after it was manifestly clear that he was wrong.

I wasn't in the kind of job where you hob-nob with the managing director.

Hiro Toda, managing director of the most go-ahead shipbuilding complex in Japan, never does anything suddenly or unpremeditated.

My fictional father was allegedly the manager of a Bauer plant in Buenos Aires and friend of the Bari managing director, who had agreed to give me a six-week secondment so that I could learn the business of import-export trading.

He remembered a fund on Wall Street that had taken a hundred-million-dollar hit because its managing director wouldn't back off a po­.

I will ask my brother-in-law, who is Managing Director of the Anglo-Argentine Bank, to join us for a private conversation.

On the death of their father, the estancia had passed to Jorge Guillermo Frade and his sister (now Beatrice Frade de Duarte, whose husband was Humberto Valdez Duarte, Managing Director of the Anglo-Argentinian Bank).

The then-managing director of the Mail-and Godwin's right hand man-was Tom Royce.