directories

noun

plural of directory
as in codes
a book that contains mandates and instructions for actions or conduct

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Recent Examples of directories Establish your practice’s Google Business Profile, and maintain consistent information across relevant directories. — Ajay Prasad, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026 Other states may have different rules covering association directories and member records. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026 Those names didn’t appear in a spot check of old phone books or business directories. — Fielding Buck, Daily News, 2 Sep. 2026 Because most of the unredacted logs listed only the officers’ initials, reporters spent weeks scouring agencies’ websites, city staff directories, statewide badge registries and news articles to reveal the officers’ identities. — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 Many users found pages through Yahoo-style directories, bookmarks, newsgroups, email signatures, and links from site to site because the web was still small enough that human organization could compete with machine indexing. — Alan Bradley, ArsTechnica, 7 Aug. 2026 Inside The Shops at North Bridge, the upgrades will include improved lighting, new signage and wayfinding, new digital directories, new floors and finishes, and better sightlines. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026 The ban won’t cover online encyclopedias, or educational or scientific directories. — Samuel Petrequin, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026 The ban won’t cover online encyclopedias, educational or scientific directories. — ABC News, 21 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for directories
  1. codes
  2. statutes
  3. rules
  4. regulations
  5. bylaws
  6. ground rules
  7. ordinances
  8. laws
Noun
  • Bump codes can help identify complex patients and ensure hospitals are paid more for caring for them.
    — Leah Pierson, STAT, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Medical bills are often impenetrable documents littered with complex codes and terminology, and sorting through charges and details about insurance coverage can feel intimidating, if not downright paralyzing.
    — Jennifer Schlinger, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of codes
Noun
  • Meanwhile, in England and the United States and across continental Europe, statutes that punished idleness sharpened into vagrancy laws that gave police discretionary power to identify when a form of nonaction constituted criminal disorder.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The monarch is entitled to sovereign immunity under customary international law and according to Australian statutes including the Foreign States Immunities Act 1985 and the Diplomatic Privileges and Immunities Act 1967.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of statutes
Noun
  • Its rules about transfers and conference membership seem arbitrary and deferential to the Southeastern and Big Ten conferences, college football's most influential.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The proposal arrived as California works through a broader overhaul of recycling rules.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of rules
Noun
  • The conservative-majority Supreme Court has been skeptical of environmental regulations in the past, including in a 2022 decision limiting the EPA's authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The Department of Toxic Substances Control is tasked with enforcing laws and regulations governing hazardous waste and hazardous substances, according to the agency’s website.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of regulations
Noun
  • According to bylaws, the HOA did not have to make this information available beyond its physical office, located at one end of the community.
    — Stephanie A. Dhuman, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
  • But the Musk trailer, which dropped Thursday, does not appear to fall in the category of the campaign advertising those bylaws were enacted to prevent.
    — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of bylaws
Noun
  • The White House and its allies are lonely in their insistence that AI development in America must accelerate without governments setting ground rules.
    — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the White House, did not elaborate.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of ground rules
Noun
  • Local authorities also knew about the fireworks facility but did not conduct safety inspections or ensure that the companies followed local ordinances or state hazardous materials laws.
    — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The City Council on Thursday formally introduced ordinances to approve a tax increment financing plan, or TIF, to support the stadium project.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of ordinances
Noun
  • Pan, a pediatrician, made national headlines while in the Legislature for leading California’s efforts to enact strict school vaccine laws.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The president and his allies have insisted that existing liability laws offer enough protections.
    — Jeff Masonand Michael Shepard Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of laws

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