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intendance

/in-ten-duhns/US // ɪnˈtɛn dəns //UK // (ɪnˈtɛndəns) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an administrative department, especially one in the government system introduced by the French statesman Richelieu during the 17th century, or the officials in charge of it.
    • : the official quarters of an intendant.
    • : the function of an intendant; superintendence; intendancy.

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Examples

  • Defects in administration by the Intendance, and general obstructiveness in that branch of the service.

  • She found a pretense to call upon Barbaroux, then with his friends at the Intendance.

  • He would of preference have stayed in the Intendance had he known that pitfalls and traps were at every footstep.

  • Yet at this very time Doltaire was living in the Intendance, and, as he had told Alixe, not without some personal danger.

  • She walked lame, and must use a stick, and we issued forth towards the Intendance, Mathilde remaining behind.