Other forms: directorates
A directorate is the board that directs an organisation. The directorate met, a directorate of nine, joint directorate.
It is used most in government and in large institutions, where a directorate is also a whole division under one director — the Directorate of Operations, and so on. The Directory that governed revolutionary France is the same word. Note that the -ate ending names an office or the body holding it.
1noundirectorateThe board that directs an organisation.
“The company's directorate voted to close the factory.”
directorate is a governing body.
Director plus -ate, an ending naming an office or the body holding it, as in electorate and consulate.
Latin
dīrēctor
Middle French
directeur
English
director
English, today
directorate
From director + -ate. director Middle French directeur and its source Latin dīrēctor, from Latin dīrēctus. by surface analysis, direct + -or.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA