directorate

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

noun

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

directorate

/ daɪ-; dɪˈrɛktərɪt /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of directorate¹

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

Example Sentences

So, we’re still making all of that happen in our directorate and across the entire enterprise, but I think we’re in a really good position, and certainly for the Space Force as it continues to mature, continues to grow.

From Washington Blade

The $100 billion would go to a new technology directorate at the National Science Foundation — coming in at more than double NSF’s traditional funding.

From Vox

Some advocates worried that money would warp NSF’s culture, shifting focus from basic research to the applied sciences work of the new directorate.

From Vox

A directorate has its own staff, and it is headed by someone who generally reports to the national security adviser.

From Washington Post

Dawn Meyerriecks, who heads the agency’s science and technology directorate, says the best-case scenario is that the agency’s research and development could end up paying for itself.

From MIT Technology Review

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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