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directionsnounpl. of direction 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 behests, charges, commandments, commands, decrees, dictates, directives, dos(or do's), edicts, imperatives, injunctions, instructions, orders, words demands, requirementsmandatescountermands, counterorders(or counter-orders)laws, precepts, prescriptions, prescripts, rulesordinances, regulations, statutes appeals, entreaties, petitions, pleas, urgingsproposals, recommendations, suggestions the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about somethingworking under the close direction of the engineering supervisor administrations, care, charges, conducts, controls, governances, governments, guidance, handlings, intendances, managements, operations, oversights, presidencies, regulations, stewardships, superintendences, superintendencies, supervisions generalships, leaderships, rulershipsagenciesaegises(also egises), custodies, guardianships, laps, protections, trusts, tutelages, wardslogistics, machinations, manipulationscoadministrations, codirections(or co-directions) a guiding or motivating purpose or principlea life that seemed to lack any direction other than the mindless pursuit of empty pleasures compasses, cynosures, foci(also focuses), lodestars(also loadstars), polestars benchmarks, criteria(also criterions), grades, marks, measures, pars, standards, touchstones, yardsticksaims, ambitions, aspirations, dreams, goals, intentions, objectives, objects, purposes, targets a prevailing or general movement or inclinationsome older people worry about the overall direction that political discourse has taken lately currents, drifts, leanings, runs, tendencies, tides, trends, winds curves, downsides, shifts, swings, turnabouts, turns, upsidescustoms, habits, propensities, tenors, wayscountercurrents, countertrends(or counter-trends)undercurrents, undertows |