directorate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a group of persons chosen to govern the affairs of a corporation or other large institution

From director + -ate.

It dated from the period of Louis XVI, the Revolution and the Directorate. — Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant
Ferguson sent for Walter Lees, the young engineer of whom he had spoken to the directorate. — Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930, Unknown
The bank would never miss the money, and he firmly believed the whole directorate of the fossil institution was permeated with the dry rot of centuries. — Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude, Austin Bidwell

board of directors

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