superintendent

noun

ˌsü-p(ə-)rin-ˈten-dənt How to pronounce superintendent (audio)
Definition of superintendentnext
as in manager
a person who manages or directs something the office of the superintendent of parks issues camping permits

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Recent Examples of superintendent The superintendent also serves as a voting member of governing boards of the state's transitional kindergarten through higher education systems. — Tim Fang, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026 Democrats are trying to capture a slate of other statewide offices, from lieutenant governor to schools superintendent, and win control of the utility-regulating Public Service Commission. — Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 3 Nov. 2026 Williams had been the district’s deputy superintendent of operations before taking her current post. — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026 Eiler was alerted to the discovery by a cultural affairs specialist with the Tohono O’odham Nation, a larger tribe whose reservation is east of Organ Pipe, and later by the Organ Pipe superintendent’s office. — Ryan Devereaux, ProPublica, 2 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for superintendent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superintendent
  1. manager
  2. administrator
  3. executive
  4. director
  5. supervisor
Noun
  • This was him—sans manager and inching toward divorce with Sara Lownds, the mother of his first five children—acting on his own advice, gathering his friends and just getting onstage, high and electrified and focused and free.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Danielle DeBoe Harper is the senior creative style manager at Moen.
    — Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of manager
Noun
  • Questions also remain about the district’s disciplinary investigation, Young’s employment status and what changes, if any, administrators will make to the football program before next season.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Public school district administrators across the county pushed to get the proposition on the ballot, which, if adopted, will add more to county homeowners’ tax burden.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of administrator
Noun
  • They were photographed together both at a bar with other suppliers and then also out to dinner with some other executives.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 9 Nov. 2026
  • In many cases, boards and investors focused on ethical breaches, such as executives using company funds inappropriately or advancing the careers of romantic partners who reported to them.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
Definition of executive
Noun
  • Ballard was Newsom’s communications director from 2007 to 2010, when the outgoing governor was mayor of San Francisco.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Anna Saavedra serves as the director of the Center for Civic Society within the University of Southern California Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service.
    — Ismar Volić, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of director
Noun
  • Patrick Yaroch, 37, was a supervisor in the FBI's counterintelligence and espionage division until his arrest this summer.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Serna endorsed Guerra, who is also supported by three other Sacramento supervisors and Sacramento councilmembers Roger Dickinson, Phil Pluckebaum and Rick Jennings.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of supervisor

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“Superintendent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superintendent. Accessed 11 Nov. 2026.

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