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directionnoun a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concernedwe were given very specific directions for the first part of the exam behest, charge, command, commandment, decree, dictate, directive, do, edict, imperative, injunction, instruction, order, word demand, requirementmandatecountermand, counterorderlaw, precept, prescript, prescription, ruleordinance, regulation, statute appeal, entreaty, petition, plea, urgingproposal, recommendation, suggestion the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about somethingworking under the close direction of the engineering supervisor administration, care, charge, conduct, control, governance, government, guidance, handling, intendance, management, operation, oversight, presidency, regulation, running, stewardship, superintendence, superintendency, supervision generalship, leadership, rulershipagencyaegis(also egis), custody, guardianship, keeping, lap, protection, safekeeping, trust, tutelage, wardengineering, logistics, machination, manipulationcoadministration, codirection, comanagement a guiding or motivating purpose or principlea life that seemed to lack any direction other than the mindless pursuit of empty pleasures compass, cynosure, focus, lodestar(also loadstar), polestar benchmark, criterion, grade, mark, measure, par, standard, touchstone, yardstickaim, ambition, aspiration, dream, goal, intention, object, objective, purpose, target a prevailing or general movement or inclinationsome older people worry about the overall direction that political discourse has taken lately current, drift, leaning, run, tendency, tide, trend, wind curve, downside, shift, swing, turn, turnabout, upsidecustom, habit, propensity, tenor, waycountercurrent, countertrendundercurrent, undertow in the 15th century |