Thesaurus results for INTENDANCE

intendance

noun

in-ˈten-dən(t)s

Definition of intendance

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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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

The operation has brought a fuel crisis that is embarrassing the Kremlin.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Intel, the largest private employer in Oregon, also announced layoffs last month, impacting its data center operations and shrinking its workforce to 81,000 — down from more than 130,000 in 2022.

— Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of operation

Noun

Not necessarily having control of it, but understanding what Kanan did and how this was going to come back to him.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
On June 12, Anthropic suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models to comply with Commerce Department export controls.

— Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of control

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But the recording itself — which happened in eerie circumstances and nearly destroyed one of the trumpets — also underlines how our handling of antiquities has evolved dramatically in the intervening decades.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
In addition, produce is distributed through a complex supply chain, and these foods can become contaminated during irrigation, manufacturing, transportation and handling at a restaurant or at home.

— Omer Awan, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of handling

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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

Fellow defender William Gallas may have gone in the opposite direction to Tottenham (also on a free) a few years later, but nothing has compared to Campbell’s move since.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
The Gemini Moon moves through your 11th House of Friends and Community and sextiles Saturn in your 9th House of Vision, helping conversations become plans with real direction.

— Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of direction

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Etzel said the executive order is also intended to put pressure on states that establish vaccine requirements for schools, while potentially setting up additional legal challenges over the federal government’s authority to influence vaccine policy.

— Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2026
Three days later, a former lawmaker was arrested after a shooting at a government office that killed one person and injured another.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026

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