directorate

Phonetic

US /dəˈrektərət/UK /dəˈrektərət/

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

On Thursday night , Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism issued a statement , but did not name the Tate brothers , stating that two British citizens and two Romanian citizens were suspected of being part of a human trafficking group
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Russia’s delegation to the trilateral(三國) meeting in Abu Dhabi consists only of representatives from the country’s Ministry of Defense and will be led by Main Intelligence Directorate Chief Admiral Igor Olegovich Kostyukov.
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The situation grew critical in late 1917 as the Directorate, led by the left-wing Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries (SRs), controlled the government.
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General Directorate of Political and Social Investigations
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head of the operations directorate of the Israel
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