| DOCTORATE | • doctorate n. The highest degree awarded by a university faculty. • doctorate v. (Archaic) To make (someone) into a doctor.
 • DOCTORATE n. the academic degree of doctor.
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| LECTORATE | • lectorate n. A lectorship. • LECTORATE n. the office of lector, a reader, esp. in a college or church service.
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| PASTORATE | • pastorate n. The role or responsibilities of a pastor. • pastorate n. The period of service of a particular pastor to their congregation; their term of office.
 • pastorate n. An organization or body consisting of multiple pastors.
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| RECTORATE | • rectorate n. The office of a rector. • RECTORATE n. the office of rector, also RECTORSHIP.
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| ELECTORATE | • electorate n. The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote. • electorate n. (Historical) The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the…
 • electorate n. (Chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A geographical area represented by one or more elected officials; a…
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| DIRECTORATE | • directorate n. An agency headed by a director, usually a subdivision of a major government department. • directorate n. A body of directors.
 • DIRECTORATE n. the office of director.
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| EXPECTORATE | • expectorate v. (Transitive, intransitive) To cough up fluid from the lungs. • expectorate v. (Transitive, intransitive) To spit.
 • EXPECTORATE v. to eject from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting.
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| SELECTORATE | • selectorate n. The group of people involved in making a selection, e.g. to select a party’s candidate for an election. • selectorate n. (UK) The members of a political party with voting rights.
 • SELECTORATE n. as in selectorate theory, a political term.
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| COLLECTORATE | • collectorate n. The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship. • COLLECTORATE n. the office of collector.
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| INSPECTORATE | • inspectorate n. An organized group of inspectors. • inspectorate n. The office of an inspector.
 • inspectorate n. The jurisdiction of an inspector.
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| PRECEPTORATE | • PRECEPTORATE n. the office of preceptor. | 
| PROTECTORATE | • protectorate n. Government by a protector; especially, the government of England, Scotland, and Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. • protectorate n. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects…
 • protectorate n. An autonomous territory that is protected diplomatically or militarily against third parties by a stronger…
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| POSTDOCTORATE | • postdoctorate adj. Postdoctoral. • postdoctorate n. Synonym of postdoc.
 • POSTDOCTORATE n. a degree after a doctorate.
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