SUPERINTENDENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superintendence mean? 

• SUPERINTENDENCE (noun)
  The noun SUPERINTENDENCE has 1 sense:

1. management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

  Familiarity information: SUPERINTENDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERINTENDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

oversight; superintendence; supervising; supervision

Hypernyms ("superintendence" is a kind of...):

direction; management (the act of managing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "superintendence"):

invigilation (keeping watch over examination candidates to prevent cheating)

Derivation:

superintend (watch and direct)

 Context examples 

The person in charge of the care and superintendence of something, especially a collection.

(Curator, NCI Thesaurus)

He starved us when he had the sole superintendence of the provision department, before the committee was appointed; and he bored us with long lectures once a week, and with evening readings from books of his own inditing, about sudden deaths and judgments, which made us afraid to go to bed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Darcy often acknowledged himself to be under the greatest obligations to my father's active superintendence, and when, immediately before my father's death, Mr. Darcy gave him a voluntary promise of providing for me, I am convinced that he felt it to be as much a debt of gratitude to him, as of his affection to myself.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Miss Lavinia, self-charged with the superintendence of my darling's wardrobe, is constantly cutting out brown-paper cuirasses, and differing in opinion from a highly respectable young man, with a long bundle, and a yard measure under his arm.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)