Definition of "director-general" []

• The highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. In reference to government, the executive officer below the minister of the department. (noun)

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• "WADA director-general David Howman says any positive test containing only trace amounts of a banned substance should still be taken seriously."
• "Roger Webb, the acting director-general of the Switzerland-based International Hockey Federation, said the decision to introduce artificial turf to hockey was "almost accidental.""
• "And just last week, speaking at a TED conference in Long Beach, Al Jazeera's director-general, Wadah Kanfar, was enthusiastically applauded by some 1500 Americans for his network's role in overthrowing corrupt Arab regimes."