direct
verb (used with object)
to manage or guide by advice, helpful information, instruction, etc..
self-directing
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a word derived from
direct.
Example Sentences
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Thespian self-directing tends toward the blustery, for reasons that are easy to understand.
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2012
Later disseminating becomes irrelevant considering rapidity of technological change.What is now needed is classroom activity designed to enhance and increase student self-directing consciousness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2010
Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each rational person, and every self-directing social group seeks to get the largest possible return in the form of satisfaction for the time and the energy invested in any given enterprise.
From The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation by Scott Nearing
They assume the attitude of self-directing and self-responsible bodies.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
