directorate

English

Etymology

From director +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (UK) /dɪˈɹɛktəɹət/, /daɪˈɹɛktəɹət/

• Audio (General American):

  (file)

Noun

directorate (plural directorates)

1. An agency headed by a director, usually a subdivision of a major government department.
2. A body of directors.

   Synonym: directorship

   Hyponym: board of directors

   Meronym: managing director

   • 2021 January 13, Bethan McKernan, “Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 August 2025:

     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.

Translations

an agency headed by a director

• Armenian: տնօրինություն (hy) (tnōrinutʻyun)
• Czech: ředitelství n
• Danish: direktorat n
• Finnish: direktoraatti (fi)
• French: direction (fr) f
• German: Direktorium n
• Greek: διευθυντήριο (el) n (diefthyntírio)
• Hindi: निदेशालय m (nideśālay)
• Hungarian: igazgatóság (hu), csoportfőnökség (hu) (as a subdivision)
• Indonesian: direktorat (id)
• Kazakh: директорат (direktorat)
• Māori: poari whakahaere
• Polish: dyrekcja (pl) f, dyrektoriat m
• Russian: директора́т (ru) m (direktorát), управле́ние (ru) n (upravlénije), правле́ние (ru) n (pravlénije), дире́кция (ru) f (dirékcija)
• Slovak: riaditeľstvo n
• Swedish: direktorat (sv) n