directorate
noun
di·rec·tor·ate
də-ˈrek-t(ə-)rət 
dī-
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For the Friday assault, the Ukrainian air force, intelligence directorate and other commands assembled one of the most diverse mix of munitions for a single operation so far in the 33-month wider war.
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David Axe, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Among the gaggle of prisoners greeted on the Moscow tarmac by Putin on August 1 was Pablo González Yagüe, born Pavel Rubtsov, an operative with Russia's main intelligence directorate (GRU) who had posed as a Spanish journalist.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
Additionally, the president should request $1.5 billion for NSF’s STEM education directorate and $500 million for the Education Department’s EIR program.
—Ulrich Boser, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
To conduct internal repressions, the NKVD built up a network of directorates all over the country: to process such large numbers required an enormous security bureaucracy.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2022
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David Axe, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Among the gaggle of prisoners greeted on the Moscow tarmac by Putin on August 1 was Pablo González Yagüe, born Pavel Rubtsov, an operative with Russia's main intelligence directorate (GRU) who had posed as a Spanish journalist.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
Additionally, the president should request $1.5 billion for NSF’s STEM education directorate and $500 million for the Education Department’s EIR program.
—Ulrich Boser, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
To conduct internal repressions, the NKVD built up a network of directorates all over the country: to process such large numbers required an enormous security bureaucracy.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 27 July 2022
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directorate
noun
di·rec·tor·ate
də-ˈrek-tə-rət, dī-
1
: a board of directors (as of a corporation)
2
: membership on a board of directors
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