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direttorio

directory

noun dee-ret-TOH-ryoh Rare
People & Society Government

Origin: French Directoire, from Latin director

Also means

governing board

Usage Note

Direttorio has two main senses: (1) a governing body or executive committee (as in the historical French Directory of 1795–99, called il Direttorio in Italian); (2) in modern bureaucratic use, a directory or governing council within an organisation. The capitalised Direttorio specifically refers to the French revolutionary government.

Examples

"Il Direttorio francese governò per quattro anni."

Natural Translation

The French Directory governed for four years.

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