Director, one of a number of persons appointed to conduct the affairs of joint-stock undertakings, such as banks, railways, water and gas companies, fire and life assurance companies, and various kinds of manufacturing and trading companies. See COMPANY.—Director is a name used by Catholics for a spiritual guide and confessor.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 7
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