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directorate
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Word definitions for directorate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837, from director + -ate (1).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution [syn: board of directors ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A directorate is an agency usually headed by a director, often a subdivision of a major government department.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the CIA's Operations Directorate EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Any sense that directorates are a mechanism to control and constrain doctors is likely to provoke problems. ▪ No-one from the college directorate was available to ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Directorate \Di*rect"o*rate\, n. [Cf. F. directorat.] The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An agency headed by a director, usually a subdivision of a major government department. 2 A body of directors.
Usage examples of directorate.
The directorate of extra-marine activities demanded a much increased arachnoid population.
The Directorate is her babyshe was one of those who pushed to get it set upand she has no intention of letting it be used for nefarious purposes.
Social Gaullist Directorate of Public Culture is entering into a joint venture with Cable Arts, Inc.
Directorate operatives get reassigned, uprooted, their biographies rewritten, networks detached and reassembled.
Even if it all goes according to plan, do you think Sindri is a better candidate to rule the planet than the barons or the Directorate?
It had been ingeniously modified in-country by Directorate assets: when the back of the truck was opened, the cargo bay seemed to be stacked with crates of Romanian wine and tzuica, plum brandy.
Tristan smiled inside, knowing that Wigg would let it grow back out of respect for his dead friends, the deceased wizards of the Directorate.
Marburg antiserum and the problems involved in shipping it to Vector, even though his own directorate had played almost no role.
For the first, the technical directorate of an entire Atlantic Sub-Sea Petroleum Corporation district, and all wells, fields, pipelines, stills, storage fields, transport, fabrication and maintenance appertaining thereto.
Finally, when they were within range, dozens of pinpoint, millisecond bursts of highest-intensity phaser fire would, theoretically, disable the jump circuits of every Directorate ship.
Bryson, and the Directorate, had thereby been able to prove what dozens of arms inspectors could not: that Vector, and therefore Russia, was involved in making biological weapons.
The Conservancy Directorate had reforested most of the abandoned lands, and introduced appropriate wildlife.
In the old days when it was the Directorate, Renne had often come in early, especially when they were on a major case.
Investigators from the Directorate were introduced as Tarlo, a tall, blond Californian, and Renne Kempasa, a Latin American from Valdivia, who was halfway toward her fourth rejuvenation.
Going back to RCA, we find that its directorate is composed of British-American establishment figures who feature prominently in other organizations such as the CFR, NATO, the Club of Rome, the Trilateral Commission, Freemasonry, Skull and Bones, Bilderbergers, Round Table, Milner Society and the Jesuits-Aristotle Society.