Intendancy
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 A territorial district overseen by an intendant.
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From intendant + -cy. Compare French intendance.
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