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Directorate   /dərˈɛktərət/  /daɪrˈɛktərət/  /dɪrˈɛktərət/   Listen
Directorate

noun
1.
A group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution.  Synonym: board of directors.



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"Directorate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Secrets of Crewe House (HODDER AND STOUGHTON), now divulged to the mere public, are the marvellous efficiency and superhuman success achieved by the British Enemy Propaganda Committee, which operated in Lord CREWE'S London house under the directorate of Lord NORTHCLIFFE. "What is propaganda?" the author asks himself on an early page, and the right answer could have been made in four letters: ADVT. It is endorsed by the eulogistic manner in which the Committee's work is written up by one of them, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 22, 1920 • Various

... Directorate period is too important to be entirely omitted from our list. It is called "Ci-devant Occupations, or Madame Tallien and the Empress Josephine dancing naked before Barras in the Winter or 1797—a Fact." The dancers can be traced behind a veil of gauze, while Barras sits at table, ...
— The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature • Selwyn Brinton

... not gone into details in considering the question of the employment of forces in other theatres, as such operations were considered by the M.O. Directorate of the War Office when I was C.I.G.S., and I have no doubt that a full record of the conclusions which were reached ...
— 1914 • John French, Viscount of Ypres



Words linked to "Directorate" :   board, staggered board of directors, board of directors, Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, management



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