Meanings
plural directorates
- A body of directors.
Meronym: managing director
1 more example
The critically low level of rainfall in the second half of 2020 – approaching 50% year on year for November – led the religious affairs directorate to instruct imams and their congregations to pray for rain last month.
2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2025Synonyms: directorship
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA body of directors.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Czech ředitelství
- ředitelstvían agency headed by a director
Danish direktorat
- direktoratan agency headed by a director
Finnish direktoraatti
- direktoraattian agency headed by a director
French direction
- directionan agency headed by a director
German Direktorium
- Direktoriuman agency headed by a director
Greek διευθυντήριο
- διευθυντήριο (diefthyntírio)an agency headed by a director
Hindi निदेशालय
- निदेशालय (nideśālay)an agency headed by a director
Hungarian igazgatóság, csoportfőnökség
- igazgatóságan agency headed by a director
- csoportfőnökségan agency headed by a director
Indonesian direktorat
- direktoratan agency headed by a director
Māori poari whakahaere
- poari whakahaerean agency headed by a director
Polish dyrekcja, dyrektoriat
- dyrekcjaan agency headed by a director
- dyrektoriatan agency headed by a director
Russian директора́т, управле́ние
- директора́т (direktorát)an agency headed by a director
- управле́ние (upravlénije)an agency headed by a director
- правле́ние (pravlénije)an agency headed by a director
- дире́кция (dirékcija)an agency headed by a director
Slovak riaditeľstvo
- riaditeľstvoan agency headed by a director
Swedish direktorat
- direktoratan agency headed by a director
Cite this entry
directorate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/directorate
“directorate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/directorate. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “directorate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/directorate.
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