Directorate

Direction (from Latin directio "direction") stands for:

• an instruction from the employer to the employee by virtue of the right of management ,
• the management of a company (see under manager )
• the director of a school (see under school management )
• in Germany a certain authority (mostly medium authority and often federal authority ), e.g. B. Verification Directorate , Oberfinanzdirektion , Police Directorate , the German Federal Police Directorate , etc. (exemplified disbanded authorities or outdated designations: Oberpostdirektion , Reichsbahndirektion , Bundesbahndirektion , Grenzschutzdirektion )
• a department in the EU Commission (European Union)
• in Austria also an authority or an office, e.g. B. the General Directorate for Public Security , a state police directorate or its predecessor ( security directorates , federal police directorates )
• the ministries in many cantons of Switzerland ; see the respective canton articles
• in astrology a method for the event time calculation in the horoscope , see direction (astrology)
• In music, in works for ensembles without a conductor, the musical part of the leading instrument (mostly violin or piano ), in which the most important musical processes are indicated by cue notes

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Wiktionary: Direction  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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