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Directorate vs Parastatal - What's the difference?

directorate | parastatal |

As nouns the difference between directorate and parastatal

is that directorate is an agency headed by a director, usually a subdivision of a major government department while parastatal is a company, agency, or intergovernmental organization, that possesses political clout and is separate from the government, but whose activities serve the state, either directly or indirectly.

As an adjective parastatal is

pertaining to such a company or group.

directorate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An agency headed by a director, usually a subdivision of a major government department.
  • A body of directors.

    • parastatal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A company, agency, or intergovernmental organization, that possesses political clout and is separate from the government, but whose activities serve the state, either directly or indirectly.

    • Synonyms

    * quango

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to such a company or group.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 918:
  • *:‘Parastatal ’ organizations – local councils, representatives of business, the Red Cross – had been increasingly filling the gap left by the government's maladministration [...].