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intendancy

intendancy noun: the office or employment of an intendant.

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.

Forms of intendancy

pluralintendancies

Origin of intendancy

From intendant + -cy. Compare French intendance.

Questions about intendancy

What does intendancy mean?
Intendancy means the office or employment of an intendant.
What part of speech is intendancy?
Intendancy is a noun.
What is the plural of intendancy?
The plural of intendancy is intendancies.

Words near intendancy in the dictionary

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

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