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intendancies

intendancies is the plural of intendancy.

Meaning of intendancy

Noun

intendancy (plural intendancies)

  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.1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 57
  2. A territorial district overseen by an intendant.

Questions about intendancies

What is intendancies the plural of?
Intendancies is the plural of intendancy.

Words near intendancies in the dictionary

  1. intencely
  2. intend
  3. intendable
  4. intendance
  5. intendances
  6. intendancies
  7. intendancy
  8. intendant
  9. intendants
  10. intendantship
  11. intendantships

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