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What is the noun for intendant?

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intendant
  1. (dated) One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.
  2. A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries; (historical) the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France; and (historical) imperial China.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Peter Ruzicka, the new intendant of the festival, threatens to revive it for 2006, the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.”
      “To centralize the administration, an intendant was put in charge of each province, and in 1717, the executive bureaus of the government were reorganized.”
intendancy
  1. The office or employment of an intendant.
  2. A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
  3. Examples:
    1. “In 1668 left for France, but returned to Canada in 1670, and resumed the intendancy.”
      “The best comes from the forests round the village of Zentila, in the intendancy of Oaxaca.”
      “The intendancy of which this town was the capital was one of the richest in Mexico.”
intendent
  1. Obsolete form of intendant.
  2. Examples:
    1. “There is dire need for an intendent center to meet development needs and train national cadres, she said.”
      “Senior Super Intendent Police Investigation Rana Ayaz had verified the arrest of suspect Tooba two days ago.”
intendancies
  1. plural of intendancy
intendents
  1. plural of intendent
intendants
  1. plural of intendant
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Soon all but two of the East German theatre intendants will be gone, and only West German intendants will remain.”
      “The king's absolute authority over the country at large was embodied in a handful of omnicompetent executive agents, the intendants.”
      “Colonies were under the control of governors and officials called intendants without the interference of representative bodies.”
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