intendance

noun

in-ˈten-dən(t)s How to pronounce intendance (audio)
Definition of intendancenext
as in management
the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something his scrupulous intendance of the university's finances

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  1. management
  2. operation
  3. control
  4. handling
  5. supervision
  6. administration
  7. direction
  8. government
Noun
  • The banks maintain that their contracts give them broad authority to end customer relationships and that decisions may be driven by regulatory and risk-management obligations.
    — Zachary Bynum, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • According to officials, the program began in 2001 with NDOW’s first Karelian bear dog, Stryker, making the agency one of the first in North America to use the breed for bear management.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of management
Noun
  • Kansas plans on hiring Sam Strantz, senior team counsel for the NBA’s Houston Rockets, as the Jayhawks athletic department’s new executive director of front office strategy and operations, ESPN reported Friday.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The plan to consolidate FIFA’s commercial and event operations into a new commercial subsidiary valued at $20 billion is off the table, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said in a statement.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of operation
Noun
  • Ceuta’s residents recalled a similar but smaller migration crisis in 2021, when the Moroccan government dropped its border controls and let several thousand people from Morocco and sub-Saharan countries into Ceuta over two days.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The competitive edge is shifting from raw model intelligence to efficient operations, specialized data, and infrastructure control.
    — Gerui Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of control
Noun
  • Furthermore, MedPage Today reported last month that at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association delegates urged the FDA to improve their handling of peptides.
    — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Indeed, Trump’s approval ratings on his handling of the economy have slumped alongside his numbers on the Iran war, with support slipping even among Republicans.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of handling
Noun
  • Control or supervision over the chokepoint has become just as much a red line for Tehran as the right to nuclear enrichment.
    — Todd Symons, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Plenty of building still belongs to specialists, including complex systems, security-sensitive applications, and anything going to customers without supervision.
    — Will Drover, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of supervision
Noun
  • This centralized approach has increasingly alienated both confederations and FIFA’s own administration.
    — Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The backlog, which grew significantly under the Biden administration, has decreased for the first time in at least 10 years.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of administration
Noun
  • The Azure DevOps case makes the same point from the other direction.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • When the containers opened, the butterflies scattered in every direction.
    — Sophia Buonpane, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of direction
Noun
  • Tribal governments, whose compacts trade exclusivity for revenue shares, have their own version of the grievance, which is why four New Mexico tribes sued Kalshi in May on sovereignty grounds.
    — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Armstrong's family bought the home in 1944 after his father had moved them about a dozen times with his job as a government auditor.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of government
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