superintendency
Americannoun
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a district or place under a superintendent.
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the position or work of a superintendent.
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Also superintendence. the act or process of superintending; direction; supervision; oversight.
noun
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the office or jurisdiction of a superintendent
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a district under the jurisdiction of a superintendent
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of superintendency
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin superintendentia, equivalent to superintend ( ere ) to superintend + -entia -ency
Example Sentences
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The fundamental work of his superintendency may be taking place largely behind closed doors.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2023
Cards accounted for just 2% - equivalent to some $16 million - of the credit portfolio of Venezuelan banks at the end of December 2022, according to the country's banking superintendency.
From Reuters • Feb. 13, 2023
Ziegler officially assumes the superintendency at a fraught moment for Loudoun, which is one of the wealthiest districts in the nation and is also rapidly diversifying.
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2021
He’d never been a principal, and after he had held a series of administrative posts in New York and New Jersey, his first superintendency was of the 15,000-student Stamford Public Schools in Connecticut.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2015
Another phase of the subject to which I desire to call your attention is that of the superintendency.
From On the Firing Line in Education by Ladd, Adoniram Judson
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