board of directors

English

Noun

board of directors (plural boards of directors)

1. A group of people elected by stockholders to establish corporate policies and make management decisions.

Meronyms

• board member
  • chairperson, chair, chairwoman, chairman

Related terms

• managing director (sometimes meronymous)
• overboarded
• overboarding

Translations

group of people elected by stockholders

• Arabic: مَجْلِس إِدَارَة m (majlis ʔidāra)
• Azerbaijani: direktorlar şurası
• Bengali: পরিচালনা পর্ষদ (poricalona porśod)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 董事會／董事会 (zh) (dǒngshìhuì)

• Czech: představenstvo (cs) n
• Dutch: raad van bestuur
• Finnish: hallitus (fi)
• French: conseil d’administration (fr) m
• German: Vorstand (de) m, Direktorium n, Verwaltungsrat n, Board of Directors n
• Greek: διοικητικό συμβούλιο (el) n (dioikitikó symvoúlio)
• Hungarian: igazgatótanács (hu)
• Indonesian: dewan komisaris (id)
• Irish: bord stiúrthóirí m
• Italian: consiglio d'amministrazione m
• Japanese: 取締役会 (とりしまりやくかい, torishimariyaku-kai)
• Kazakh: директорлар кеңесі (direktorlar keñesı)
• Korean: 이사회(理事會) (isahoe)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: styre (no) n

  Nynorsk: styre n

• Persian: هیئت مدیره
• Polish: zarząd (pl) m
• Portuguese: (Brazil) diretoria (pt) f, conselho de administração m
• Romanian: consiliu director n, consiliu de administrație (ro) n
• Russian: сове́т директоро́в m (sovét direktoróv), правле́ние (ru) n (pravlénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: bòrd-stiùiridh m
• Spanish: consejo de administración m, mesa directiva f
• Swahili: bodi ya wakurugenzi
• Swedish: styrelse (sv) c
• Vietnamese: hội đồng quản trị (vi)