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# director — English to French

How English *director* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [director in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/director/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: director (161 057), directors (14 628). By style: everyday 59 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 528 · legal and administrative 19 185 · UN documents 154 911.

## directeur

Used about 101 786 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · parliamentary ≈ 1 210 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 791 · UN documents ≈ 88 751). Forms: directeur, directeurs.

- Where's the **director**?
  Où est le **directeur** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ellasevia and zmoo · checked, community translation · [\#1003118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1003118) [\#549572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/549572))

- Each financial year, we discharge the **director**.
  À chaque exercice, nous déchargeons le **directeur**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1062463)

- Managing **Director**: Maung Toe
  **Directeur** exécutif: Maung Toe
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1831995)

- Report of the Executive **Director**\*\*
  Rapport du **Directeur** exécutif\*\*
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 26453120)

- Ziri became a **director**.
  Ziri est devenu **directeur**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10209484](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10209484) [\#11764075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11764075))

## administration

Used about 22 229 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 80 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 397 · UN documents ≈ 17 750).

- The board of **directors** is going to discuss the proposal next Tuesday.
  Le conseil d'**administration** va discuter de la proposition mardi prochain.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#325059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325059) [\#8285780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8285780))

- The Board of **Directors** asked the bank to compute this analysis further and Stone & Webster is presently engaged in this.
  Le conseil d'**administration** a demandé à la banque d'affiner cette analyse, et Stone & Webster y travaille actuellement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1787998)

- ACTIVITY OF THE ASI's AND AOE's BOARD OF **DIRECTORS**
  ACTIVITÉS DU CONSEIL D'**ADMINISTRATION** D'ASI ET D'AOE
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4185782)

- Chairman of the Board of **Directors**, 1969
  Président du Conseil d &apos; **administration** (1969)
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 895616)

- The board of **directors** gave their approbation to the CEO's new strategic plan.
  Le conseil d'**administration** a donné son approbation au nouveau plan stratégique du PDG.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anxxos and Anxxos · checked, community translation · [\#11741908](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11741908) [\#11741909](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11741909))

## général

Used about 1 614 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 614). Forms: général, généraux.

- Decision by Secretary-General/**Director**-General
  10. Décision du Secrétaire **général**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 3195453)

## conseil

Used about 400 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 400).

- The alternate **directors** shall be appointed by the Board of Governors for five years as shown below:
  Les administrateurs suppléants sont nommés pour une période de cinq ans par le **conseil** des gouverneurs à raison de:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 204)

- In order for non-executive or supervisory **directors** to play an effective role, they should have the right background and sufficient time for the job.
  Pour jouer efficacement leur rôle, les administrateurs non exécutifs et les membres du **conseil** de surveillance devraient posséder les compétences nécessaires et pouvoir y consacrer suffisamment de temps.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 596334)

## exécutif

Used about 16 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 16).

- This board of **directors** should be made up of national representatives appointed by Member States and would be presided over by a chairman in charge of an executive committee.
  Ce dernier doit être constitué des représentants nationaux nommés par les États membres et il serait dirigé par un président qui serait à la tête d'un comité **exécutif**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1302435)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- The secretary is in a meeting with the **director**.
  La secrétaire est en réunion avec la directrice.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#8775874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8775874) [\#8775877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8775877))

- The tall guy smoking a cigar over there is a famous **director**.
  Le grand mec en train de fumer un cigare là-bas est un réalisateur célèbre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#240598](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/240598) [\#5304092](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5304092))

- He is a talented young **director**.
  C'est un jeune metteur en scène plein de talent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by znc and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#6956848](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6956848) [\#1437229](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1437229))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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