Mayor GEORGE later wrote, in an 8:08 PM text message, "I got ur voice mail message as I was going in and got direction from jim and max about public comment.
OED definition of "direction" follows.
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Here's the Oxford English Dictionary definitions of "direction" --
NOUN
- 1A course along which someone or something moves.‘she set off in the opposite direction’mass noun ‘he had a terrible sense of direction’
- 1.1 The course which must be taken in order to reach a destination.‘the village is over the moors in a northerly direction’
- 1.2 A point to or from which a person or thing moves or faces.‘a house with views in all directions’
- 1.3 A general way in which someone or something is developing; a trend or tendency.‘new directions in painting and architecture’‘any dialogue between them is a step in the right direction’
- 1.4mass noun General aim or purpose.‘the campaign's lack of direction’
- 1.1 The course which must be taken in order to reach a destination.
- 2mass noun The management or guidance of someone or something.‘under his direction, the college has developed an international reputation’
- 2.1 The work of directing the actors and other staff in a film, play, or other production.
- 2.2directionsInstructions on how to reach a destination or about how to do something.‘Preston gave him directions to a restaurant not far from the studio’
- 2.1 The work of directing the actors and other staff in a film, play, or other production.
Phrases
- sense of direction
- A person's ability to know without explicit guidance the direction in which they are or should be moving.
Origin
Late Middle English (in direction (sense 2)): from Latin directio(n-), from the verb dirigere (see direct).