superintendency
Use Superintendency in a sentence
pər noun, plural su·per·in·tend·en·cies.
1.
a district or place under a superintendent.
2.
the position or work of a superintendent.
3.
Also, su·per·in·tend·ence. the act or process of superintending; direction; supervision; oversight.
Origin:
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin superintendentia, equivalent to superintend(ere) to superintend + -entia -ency
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin superintendentia, equivalent to superintend(ere) to superintend + -entia -ency
Related forms
pre·su·per·in·tend·ence, noun
pre·su·per·in·tend·en·cy, noun
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Superintendency
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| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
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| —n , pl -cies | |
| 1. | the office or jurisdiction of a superintendent |
| 2. | a district under the jurisdiction of a superintendent |
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Example sentences
Refutes popular belief of a crisis in the superintendency.
The superintendency is often described as an unpleasant, even impossible, job.
The rural school superintendency is, in many ways, as demanding and difficult as the urban superintendency.
Excluding the superintendency from overall improvement designs or demeaning its contribution could unravel many change efforts.
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