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intendant

(in ten′dənt)

noun

a director, manager of a public business, superintendent, etc.: term applied to certain foreign officials, as to the supervisors of any of certain districts in Spanish America

Origin: Fr intendant or Sp intendente, both < L intendens, prp. of intendere: see intend

See intendant in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

An administrative official serving a French, Spanish, or Portuguese monarch.
A district administrator in some countries of Latin America.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from Old French, administrator

Origin: , from Latin intendēns, intendent-

Origin: , present participle of intendere, to intend; see intend

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