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superintendence
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superintendence
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | care |
| Synonyms: | administration, aegis, auspices, charge, control, custody, direction, guardianship, keeping, management, ministration, protection, safekeeping, supervision, trust, tutelage, ward, wardship |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | custody of person, usually child |
| Synonyms: | administration, aegis, auspices, charge, control, direction, guardianship, keeping, management, ministration, protection, safekeeping, superintendence, supervision, trust, tutelage, ward, wardship |
| Main Entry: | charge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervisory responsibility |
| Synonyms: | care, conduct, custody, handling, intendance, management, oversight, running, superintendence, superintendency, supervision, ward |
| Main Entry: | conduct |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | administration |
| Synonyms: | care, carrying on, channels, charge, control, direction, execution, guidance, handling, intendance, leadership, management, manipulation, organization, oversight, plan, policy, posture, red tape, regimen, regulation, rule, running, strategy, superintendence, supervision, tactics, transaction, treatment, wielding |
| Main Entry: | control |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command, mastery |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authority, bridle, charge, check, clout, containment, curb, determination, direction, discipline, domination, dominion, driver's seat, force, government, guidance, inside track, juice, jurisdiction, limitation, management, manipulation, might, oversight, predomination, qualification, regimentation, regulation, restraint, restriction, ropes, rule, strings, subjection, subordination, superintendence, supervision, supremacy, sway, upper hand, weight, wire pulling |
| Antonyms: | helplessness, powerlessness, relinquishment, renouncement, weakness |
| Main Entry: | custody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supervision, charge of something |
| Synonyms: | aegis, auspices, care, conservation, custodianship, guardianship, keeping, management, observation, preservation, protection, safekeeping, salvation, superintendence, trusteeship, tute-lage, ward, wardship, watch |
| Main Entry: | direction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
| Synonyms: | administration, charge, command, control, government, guidance, leadership, order, oversight, superintendence, supervision |
| Main Entry: | government |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management, administration |
| Synonyms: | Uncle Sam, Washington, authority, bureaucracy, command, control, direction, domination, dominion, empire, execution, executive, governance, guidance, influence, jurisdiction, law, ministry, patronage, political practice, politics, polity, power, powers-that-be, predominance, presidency, regency, regime, regimentation, regulation, restraint, rule, sovereignty, state, statecraft, superintendence, superiority, supervision, supremacy, sway, the feds, union |
| Antonyms: | anarchy, chaos, coup, insurrection, lawlessness, mutiny, revolt, revolution |
| Main Entry: | handling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
| Synonyms: | administration, approach, care, charge, conduct, direction, manipulation, running, styling, superintendence, supervision, treatment |
| Antonyms: | mismanagement |
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