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# directorate — English to French

How English *directorate* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: directorate (28 001), directorates (1 883). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 1 110 · legal and administrative 3 434 · UN documents 25 339.

## direction

Used about 23 435 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 946 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 219 · UN documents ≈ 19 268). Forms: direction, directions.

- The general inspector of the national police oversees regional or central **directorates**.
  Le contrôleur général de la police nationale supervise des **directions** régionales ou centrales.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362901) [\#13362900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362900))

- NGOs are not restricted to one **directorate** general.
  Les ONG ne sont pas limitées à une **direction** générale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 78849)

- **Directorate**-General for Trade
  **Direction** générale du commerce
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2713207)

- **Directorate** of Rural Affairs
  **Direction** des affaires rurales
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 10109332)

- Some **Directorates**-General are not making commitments in this area.
  Certaines **directions** générales ne prennent pas le moindre engagement dans ce domaine.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 405483)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Since then, Parliament's **Directorate**-General for Research has produced an extremely useful update study.
  Par la suite, une excellente étude de mise à jour a été présentée par le bureau d'études du Parlement européen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1907127)

- Furthermore, with the support of the **Directorate**-General for Regional Policy, we will be able to launch this new instrument and thereby apply the slogan: 'Think global, act local'.
  Aussi, avec l'appui de la DG REGIO, nous allons pouvoir lancer ce nouveau dispositif et ainsi appliquer la formule: "Think global, act local".
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1184234)

- I am referring specifically to the Environment **Directorate**-General, which, since 1998, has been due to establish technical specifications for biofuels and captive fleets, as laid down in Directive 98/70/EC.
  Je parle concrètement de la DG Environnement qui, depuis 1998, doit fixer les spécifications techniques pour les biocarburants et les flottes captives, tel que le reprend la directive 98/70/CE.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 428221)

## Grammar

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