Phrase Hound found 137 phrases and 40 compound words that contain direct. The most common are listed below. Open direct in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 137
- direct marketingMarketing that reaches potential buyers by communications directly addressed to the consumer or customer.
- direct currentAn electric current that always flows in the same direction but may differ in intensity over time.
- direct accessUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see direct, access.
- direct actionA form of political activism in which participants act illegally, ignoring established democratic procedures. It may take the form of strikes, workplace occupations, sabotage, sit-ins, squatting, revolutionary/guerrilla warfare …
- direct debita single order to allow a commercial, or similar entity to charge directly to one's bank for a regular payment.
- direct mailSynonym of advertising mail: Mail that is directly sent to recipients to advertise goods and services.
- direct depositA deposit of money straight from the source (and initiated by the source) into a bank account, by wire, or other means.
- direct objectThe noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.
- Direct link
- direct-to-homeReferring to the distribution or broadcasting of programming or services by satellite directly to the subscriber’s home.
- direct caseA noun case which covers the nominative and possibly other cases such as vocative and/or accusative (the precise definition depends on the case system in question; the term is used especially in simple systems with two or three cases)
- direct costA cost that can be directly attributed to a cost object (such as a particular project, facility, function, service, or product).
- Direct Contact
- direct productThe set of all possible tuples whose elements are elements of given, separately specified, sets.
- Direct investment
- direct speechThe verbatim representation of a speaker's words, usually enclosed in quotation marks and often introduced by a reporting clause.
- direct costsplural of direct cost: A cost that can be directly attributed to a cost object (such as a particular project, facility, function, service, or product).
- direct responseMarketing designed to generate an immediate response from consumers, where each consumer response (and purchase) can be measured and attributed to individual advertisements, and where there is no intermediary between buyer and seller.
- Direct-dial
- direct flightA flight in which the passenger makes intermediate stops but does not change aircraft.
- direct evidenceEvidence that directly supports the truth of an assertion without intervening inference.
- Direct Line
- direct reportAn employee who is directly under the supervision of a particular manager.
- direct taxA tax imposed upon a person or property as distinct from a tax imposed upon a transaction.
- foreign direct investmentA direct investment into the production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by purchasing a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country.
Compound words 40
- directionA theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object …
- redirectTo give new direction to, change the direction of.
- semidirectNeither unqualifiedly direct nor unqualifiedly indirect.
- underdirectTo exert too little artistic control when directing (a play or film).
- codirectTo direct (an artistic work) with another person.
- directercomparative form of direct: more direct
- directableAble to be directed.
- drecklydirectly
- overdirectTo take an excessive, overbearing role in directing (a play or film).
- stereodirectTo direct the stereochemistry of a reaction.