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superintendency

[soo-per-in-ten-duhn-see, soo-prin-] / ˌsu pər ɪnˈtɛn dən si, ˌsu prɪn- /






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Carvalho’s later Form 700s — for the entire period of his superintendency — are nearly blank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

The fundamental work of his superintendency may be taking place largely behind closed doors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

Cards accounted for just 2% - equivalent to some $16 million - of the credit portfolio of Venezuelan banks at the end of December 2022, according to the country's banking superintendency.

From Reuters ● Feb. 13, 2023

He’d never been a principal, and after he had held a series of administrative posts in New York and New Jersey, his first superintendency was of the 15,000-student Stamford Public Schools in Connecticut.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2015

So that the superintendency of the Sunday School came to an end.

From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

How do you structure your relationships from your office to your 32 superintendencies?

From Time Magazine Archive

"Higher position in the public school service" meant, in the main, in the early days, city superintendencies and high school principalships.

From On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd

In 1888, however, the state superintendency was abolished, and county superintendencies were created instead, the legislature thus returning, in a measure, to the old system of local control.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various

At the same time that the Tsung-li Yamên was created, two important offices were established in the provinces for dealing with foreign commercial questions, viz. the superintendencies of trade for the northern and southern ports.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

He rose rapidly in the ranks, filling several superintendencies in the old parent property before he went to Watertown, in the late summer of 1902.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Edward Hungerford




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