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Intendancy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The office or employment of an intendant.

    "By the 1780s [in France] four quarterings of nobility were needed even to buy a commission in the army, all bishops were nobles and even the keystone of royal administration, the intendancies, had been largely recaptured by them."

  2. 2
    A territorial district overseen by an intendant.

Etymology

From intendant + -cy. Compare French intendance.

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