"managing director" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: managing directors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} managing director (plural managing directors)
  1. The chief executive of a limited company. Wikipedia link: managing director Synonyms: MD [initialism] Related terms: board of directors (english: sometimes holonymous), board member (english: sometimes hypernymous) Coordinate_terms: chairperson, chair, chairwoman, chairman (english: sometimes coinstantial) Translations (the chief executive of a limited company): 局長 (Chinese Mandarin), 局长 (júzhǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), 老闆 (Chinese Mandarin), 老板 (lǎobǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 經理 (Chinese Mandarin), 经理 (jīnglǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 總經理 (Chinese Mandarin), 总经理 (zǒngjīnglǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), jednatel [masculine] (Czech), administrerende direktør [common-gender] (Danish), toimitusjohtaja (Finnish), directeur général [masculine] (French), Geschäftsführer [masculine] (German), Geschäftsführerin [feminine] (German), pisortaaneq (Greenlandic), vezérigazgató (Hungarian), stiúrthóir bainisteoireachta [masculine] (Irish), 常務 (jōmu) (alt: じょうむ) (Japanese), 上司 (jōshi) (alt: じょうし) (Japanese), 상무 (sangmu) (alt: 常務) (Korean), pengarah urusan (Malay), administrerende direktør [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), administrerande direktør [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), управля́ющий дире́ктор (upravljájuščij diréktor) [masculine] (Russian), управля́ющий (upravljájuščij) [masculine] (Russian), управля́ющая (upravljájuščaja) [feminine] (Russian), дире́ктри́са (diréktrísa) [feminine, rare] (Russian), director general [masculine] (Spanish)

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Alternative forms

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