program director

noun

: one in charge of planning and scheduling program material for a radio or television station or network

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Sarah Coulter, Americas program director for Accelerating Circularity, said the key to unlocking this type of recycling at scale goes beyond the technology necessary to process textiles for reuse. Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 6 May 2026 James Rowley, a pulmonologist and the program director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship at Rush University Medical Center, considers sleep to be just as essential as diet and exercise for a healthy life. Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 May 2026 Bala is associate program director of the child/adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Central Michigan University. Sarah Mohiuddin, STAT, 30 Apr. 2026 According to Nature Conservancy working lands program director Kirk Feuerbacher, 98 percent of their habitat in coastal marshes has been redeveloped or altered. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 29 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for program director

Word History

First Known Use

1901, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of program director was in 1901

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“Program director.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/program%20director. Accessed 12 May. 2026.

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