Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DIRECTOR
  
  a person responsible for determining the policy of a corporation, institution or other entity. Directors are usually elected by the shareholders, but sometime are appointed. Directors appoint the organization's president, vice presidents and other operating officers, and decide among other things, when dividends are paid.
  
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