managing director

1. 1.

   someone who controls resources and expenditures

   Synonymsdirectormanager

   Broaderadministrator

   Narrowerbank managerdistrict managermanageress

Questions about managing director

What does managing director mean?

managing director means "someone who controls resources and expenditures".

What is another word for managing director?

Close synonyms include director, manager. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is managing director a common word?

managing director is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.