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directorate

[ dih-rek-ter-it, dahy- ]

noun

  1. the office of a director.
  2. a body of directors.


directorate

/ dɪˈrɛktərɪt; daɪ- /

noun

  1. a board of directors
  2. Alsodirectorship the position of director


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Word History and Origins

Origin of directorate1

1830–40; < French directorat < Late Latin dīrēctor director + French -at -ate 3

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Example Sentences

A sergeant from the Directorate General of Prisons, Mina Olmedo, was shot and killed, and eleven other guards were badly injured.

As part of the scoping officers were given unprecedented access to Special Forces Directorate records.

A civil war in 1970 was won by the East Bankers and they control the army and the General Intelligence Directorate.

The Inter-Services Intelligence directorate is widely held to have been involved in his killing.

Although it's too early to accuse the ISI, Hasan says, he nevertheless thinks the directorate has to be a top suspect.

One discovers it still as vigorous under the Directorate as if there had been no revolution.

But in 1855, when Sir Joseph joined his father in the directorate, it had grown by successive additions to 70 acres.

It is only once in a generation that a man like Harriman, who can bend a whole mighty directorate to his absolute will, arises.

Such were the principal changes made in the ascriptions of the pictures during Sir Edward Poynter's directorate.

Thereupon Colonel Thorp rose and begged leave to withdraw his name from the directorate of the company.

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