All directive synonyms
di·rec·tive
D d noun directive
- edict — a decree issued by a sovereign or other authority. Synonyms: dictum, pronouncement.
- decree — A decree is an official order or decision, especially one made by the ruler of a country.
- injunction — Law. a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
- memo — memorandum.
- memorandum — a short note designating something to be remembered, especially something to be done or acted upon in the future; reminder.
- notice — an announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day's notice.
- regulation — a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct.
- ruling — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- mandate — a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war.
- message — a communication containing some information, news, advice, request, or the like, sent by messenger, telephone, email, or other means.
- order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- word — Microsoft Word
- ordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
- communication — Communications are the systems and processes that are used to communicate or broadcast information, especially by means of electricity or radio waves.
- charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- dictate — If you dictate something, you say or read it aloud for someone else to write down.
- ukase — (in czarist Russia) an edict or order of the czar having the force of law.
- command — If someone in authority commands you to do something, they tell you that you must do it.
- commandment — The Ten Commandments are the ten rules of behaviour which, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, people should obey.
- demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
- instruction — machine instruction
adjective directive
- bureaucratic — Bureaucratic means involving complicated rules and procedures which can cause long delays.
- organizational — the act or process of organizing.
- managerial — pertaining to management or a manager: managerial functions; the managerial class of society.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- supervisory — of, relating to, or having supervision.
- directorial — pertaining to a director or directorate.
- administrative — Administrative work involves organizing and supervising an organization or institution.
- departmental — Departmental is used to describe the activities, responsibilities, or possessions of a department in a government, company, or other organization.
- regulative — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
- policymaking — a person responsible for making policy, especially in government.
- jurisdictional — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.