Intendant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An administrative official serving a French, Spanish, or Portuguese monarch.
  • n. A district administrator in some countries of Latin America.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An administrator in certain countries in Latin America
  • n. An administrator serving the king or queen in France, Spain or Portugal.
  • adj. attentive
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent
  • adj. Attentive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who has the oversight, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; a manager: used as a title of many public officers in France and other European countries: as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
  • n. Specifically— In Canadian law, the second officer in Canada under the French rule, having civil and maritime jurisdiction.
  • n. In Mexican law, the chief officer of the treasury or of the district; a high functionary having administrative and some judicial power: in this use also written, as Spanish, intendente.
  • Word Usage
    "The nominal head, called the intendant, was a high military officer who had a sufficient detail of majors, captains and lower officers to assist him in maintaining discipline."
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