intendancy
nounEtymology From intendant + -cy. Compare French intendance.
1
The office or employment of an intendant.
- By the 1780s [in France] four quarterings of nobility were needed even to buy a commission in the army, all bishops were nobles and even the keystone of royal administration, the intendancies, had been largely recaptured by them.1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 57:
2
A territorial district overseen by an intendant.