English
Etymology
A calque of French directeur général, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
director general (plural directors general or director generals or (rare) directors generals)
- The highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department.
Translations
executive officer
- Albanian: drejtor i përgjithshëm m
- Arabic: مُدِير عَامّ m (mudīr ʕāmm)
- Armenian: գլխավոր տնօրեն (glxavor tnōren)
- Azerbaijani: baş direktor
- Belarusian: генера́льны дырэ́ктар m (hjenjerálʹny dyréktar), генэра́льны дырэ́ктар m (hjenerálʹny dyréktar)
- Bulgarian: генера́лен дире́ктор m (generálen diréktor)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 總幹事 / 总干事 (zh) (zǒnggànshì)
- Czech: generální ředitel m
- Danish: generaldirektør c
- Dutch: directeur-generaal (nl) m
- Finnish: pääjohtaja (fi), ylijohtaja (fi)
- French: directeur général (fr) m
- Georgian: გენერალური დირექტორი (generaluri direkṭori)
- German: Generaldirektor (de) m
- Greek: γενικός διευθυντής m (genikós diefthyntís)
- Hindi: महानिर्देशक m (mahānirdeśak), महानिदेशक m (mahānideśak)
- Hungarian: főigazgató (hu), főcsoportfőnök (as a subdivision)
- Italian: direttore generale (it) m
- Japanese: 局長 (ja) (きょくちょう, kyokuchō)
- Kazakh: бас директор (bas direktor)
- Korean: 국장(局長) (ko) (gukjang)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: serokê giştî (ku) m, seroka giştî f, serokên giştî pl
- Kyrgyz: башкы директор (başkı direktor)
- Macedonian: генерален директор m (generalen direktor)
- Malay: ketua pengarah
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: generaldirektør m
- Nynorsk: generaldirektør m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: مُدیرِ کُلّ (modir-e koll)
- Polish: dyrektor generalny m
- Romanian: director general m
- Russian: генера́льный дире́ктор (ru) m (generálʹnyj diréktor)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: генерални директор m
- Latin: generalni direktor m
- Slovak: generálny riaditeľ m
- Slovene: generalni direktor m
- Swedish: generaldirektör (sv) c
- Tajik: директори генералӣ (direktor-i generali), мудири генералӣ (mudir-i generali)
- Turkish: genel müdür (tr)
- Ukrainian: генера́льний дире́ктор m (henerálʹnyj dyréktor)
- Urdu: ڈائِریکْٹَر جَنْرَل m (ḍāirekṭar janral)
- Uzbek: bosh direktor
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Romanian
Noun
director general m (plural directori generali)
- chief executive officer