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intendant

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in⋅tend⋅ant

  [in-ten-duhnt]
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–noun
1. a person who has the direction or management of some public business, the affairs of an establishment, etc.; a superintendent.
2. the title of various government officials, esp. administrators serving under the French, Spanish, or Portuguese monarchies.
Origin:
1645–55; < F < L intendent- (s. of intendēns) prp. of intendere to stetch, make an effort (for), attend (to). See intend, -ant
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in·ten·dant   (ĭn-těn'dənt)   
n.  

  1. An administrative official serving a French, Spanish, or Portuguese monarch.

  2. A district administrator in some countries of Latin America.


[French, from Old French, administrator, from Latin intendēns, intendent-, present participle of intendere, to intend; see intend.]
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