The meaning of DIRECTIVE is serving or intended to guide, govern, or influence. How to use directive in a sentence.

It's scaffolding on which the company can layer operations, marketing, sales, or financial directives.

DIRECTIVE definition: serving to direct; directing. See examples of directive used in a sentence.

A directive is an order or official notice that comes from an authority. The directive from your boss instructing all employees to wear silly hats on Fridays might be hard to take seriously. …

Definition of directive noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. an official instruction. Don't start anything without a clear directive from management. Private health services will be …

3 senses: 1. an instruction; order 2. tending to direct; directing 3. indicating direction....

Define Directives. Directives synonyms, Directives pronunciation, Directives translation, English dictionary definition of Directives. n. An order or instruction, especially one issued by an …

They received a written directive instructing them to develop new security measures.

Older, experienced clinicians often view guidelines as a set of directives issued by panels composed of physicians who are out of touch with real patients.

The government has issued new directives on food hygiene. (Definition of directive from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)