Usually means: Board overseeing an organization's management.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word directorate:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. directorate: Merriam-Webster
  2. directorate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. directorate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. directorate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. directorate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Directorate, directorate: Wordnik
  7. directorate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. directorate: Wiktionary
  9. directorate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. directorate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. directorate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. directorate: Dictionary.com
  13. Directorate (Russia), Directorate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Directorate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. directorate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. directorate: Rhymezone
  17. Directorate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. directorate: FreeDictionary.org
  19. directorate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. directorate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. directorate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. directorate: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. directorate: Legal dictionary

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  1. directorate: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  An agency headed by a director, usually a subdivision of a major government department.
▸ noun:  A body of directors.

Similar:
board of directors, direction, directorship, department, agency, subdirector, director-general, secretary, subdepartment, director general, more...

Opposite:
staff, employees, workers

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executive, administrative, financial, operational, legal, compliance, humresources, more...

Phrases:
directorate general, Interlocking directorate, Enforcement Directorate, Delhi Directorate of Education, Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, more...

Adjectives:
interlocking, new, political, norwegian, national, separate, central, general, military, man, special

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Similar:
board of directors, direction, directorship, department, agency, subdirector, director-general, secretary, subdepartment, director general, more...

Opposite:
staff, employees, workers

Types:
executive, administrative, financial, operational, legal, compliance, humresources, more...

Phrases:
directorate general, Interlocking directorate, Enforcement Directorate, Delhi Directorate of Education, Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, more...

Adjectives:
interlocking, new, political, norwegian, national, separate, central, general, military, man, special

Colors:
    charcoal,     burgundy,     slate gray,     forest green,     midnight blue, more...



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