noun

superintendence

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Superintendence (noun) means the act of overseeing and managing something.

noun

The act of overseeing and managing something.

"The Ashby Canal was built under the superintendence of Robert Whitworth, and the whole length was opened in May, 1805." — Charles E. Lee, Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre (1939)

"While the Supreme Being exercises a general superintendence over affairs, the real administration is in the hands of the ancestral spirits." — James George Frazer, Adonis (1906)

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