Intendancy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Intendancy is a noun meaning The office or employment of an intendant.
Meaning
The office or employment of an intendant.
More Meanings
- A territorial district overseen by an intendant.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- intendancies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include intendantship, intendent, intendant, superintendence, superintendentship, superintendency.
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