Directorate may refer to:
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Directorates of the Scottish Government
The work of the Scottish Government is carried out by Directorates, each headed by a Director. The Directorates are grouped into a number of Directorates-General families, each headed by a Director-General. However, the individual Directorates a ...
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Directorate-General, a type of specialised administrative body in the European Union
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Directorate-General for External Security
The General Directorate for External Security (french: link=no, Direction générale de la Sécurité extérieure, DGSE) is France's foreign intelligence agency, equivalent to the British MI6 and the American CIA, established on 2 April 1982. ...
, the French external intelligence agency
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Inter-Services Intelligence, the premier intelligence service of Pakistan and a division of Pakistan Army
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Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is a statutory body of the Government of India to regulate civil aviation in India. It became a statutory body under the Aircraft (Amendment) Act, 2020. The DGCA investigates aviation accidents a ...
, India's civil safety watch and responsible for investigation for aviation incidents
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General Intelligence Directorate (Jordan)
Jordanian General Intelligence Directorate, or GID (Arabic: ) is the intelligence agency of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The GID is reportedly one of the most important and professional intelligence agencies in the Middle East; the agency has ...
, the Jordanian state intelligence agency
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Intelligence Directorate
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be ...
, the Cuban state intelligence agency
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Veterinary Medicines Directorate, an agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (United Kingdom)
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Military Intelligence Directorate (Israel), the Israeli Defence Force unit in charge upon collecting information in cooperation with the Mossad
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Unit, the Norwegian directorate for information and communications technology (ICT) and joint services in higher education and research which is part of the Ministry of Education and Research of Norway
Historical
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French Directory
The Directory (also called Directorate, ) was the governing five-member committee in the French First Republic from 2 November 1795 until 9 November 1799, when it was overthrown by Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte in the Coup of 18 Brumaire and r ...
or Directorate, one of the French Revolution's governing bodies, 1795–1799
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Directorate of Ukraine, provisional revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian National Republic, 1918–1920
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Directorate (Russia)
The Directorate (Alexander Kerensky, Kerensky Second Government) was the short-lived Provisional government, transitional government of Russia during the Russian Revolution. It consisted of five main ministers and lasted for about three weeks.
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, the ruling body of the Russian Provisional Government, September–October 1917
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Directorate of Military Intelligence (United Kingdom), a department of the War Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 1964
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Immigration and Nationality Directorate, an agency of the Home Office (United Kingdom), disestablished 2007
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Directorio (disambiguation) Directorio is Spanish for ''Directorate'' and could refer to:
*Cuban Democratic Directorate The Cuban Democratic Directorate (Directorio Democrático Cubano) is a nongovernmental organization that supports the human rights movement in Cuba.
The Di ...
, Spanish for directorate
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Directorial system
A directorial republic is a country ruled by a college of several people who jointly exercise the powers of a head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state Foakes, pp. 110 ...
, for the term as used in comparative politics
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