intendancy

From intendant +‎ -cy. Compare French intendance.

intendancy (plural intendancies)

1. The office or employment of an intendant.
   • 1962, Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution. 1789-1848, page 57:

     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.

2. A territorial district overseen by an intendant.

• “intendancy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.