Meaning of directorate in English
(Definition of directorate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
directorate | Business English
GOVERNMENT
a department or organization that is responsible for one particular thing, especially in government:
the competition/policy/safety directorate
Examples of directorate
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Putting the most important aspects of the education directorate's work out to tender is an experiment.
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I should also like to refer to the principle of interlocking directorates.
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Each of the directorates is concerned with particular types of store.
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Discussions on the structure and functions of the headquarters directorates are still continuing and the detailed information is not, therefore, available at this stage.
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They would for the most part have to advocate economies and rationalisation or reductions in the importance and power of directorates.
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I believe that there are still too many things which come out of the directorates with numbers above 20 which push forward their proposals.
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Other directorates dispose of very substantial funds, such as structural funds and other types of money.
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In addition, consideration will be given to market testing certain of the directorate's functions.
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There are seven directorates for everything that a sovereign state would cover—matters such as education, health, police, religious affairs, oil, agriculture, planning and trade.
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Poor-performing social services and housing departments will have new directorates and senior managers.
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Another project across directorates, launched in response to customer requirements, is in its early stages and detailed staffing implications have yet to be worked out.
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Auction reserve prices are based on a technical assessment by the directorate's staff of expected saleability.
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Another example of poor risk management in contingency planning was covered in our 7th report—on the immigration and nationality directorate's casework programme.
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However, some have been sold to what can only be described as bad housing directorates, property and land speculators.
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Such plans should draw together the resources of fire brigades, works and engineering directorates, voluntary organisations, civil defence volunteers and private sector civil engineering firms.
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