ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intendantship, intendent, intendant, superintendence, superintendentship, superintendency.

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