superintendency
Americannoun
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superintendencies
plural
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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
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Etymology
Origin of superintendency
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin superintendentia, equivalent to superintend ( ere ) to superintend + -entia -ency
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Carvalho’s later Form 700s — for the entire period of his superintendency — are nearly blank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
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
During his superintendency, Dr. Feeney presided over such thorny issues as school closings and budget cuts.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021
The president of the convention, Charles A. Spiess, spoke urgently in Committee of the Whole to save women's eligibility to the county superintendency from being eliminated.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI by Ida Husted Harper
How do you structure your relationships from your office to your 32 superintendencies?
From Time Magazine Archive
At the same time that the Tsung-li Yamên was created, two important offices were established in the provinces for dealing with foreign commercial questions, viz. the superintendencies of trade for the northern and southern ports.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
"Higher position in the public school service" meant, in the main, in the early days, city superintendencies and high school principalships.
From On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd
The bare repairs and superintendencies of all which call for the remaining part of his income.
From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop
He rose rapidly in the ranks, filling several superintendencies in the old parent property before he went to Watertown, in the late summer of 1902.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford
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