noun. An administrative official serving a French, Spanish, or Portuguese monarch.

noun. A district administrator in some countries of Latin America.

noun. One who has the oversight, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; a manager: used as a title of many public officers in France and other European countries: as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.

noun. Specifically— In Canadian law, the second officer in Canada under the French rule, having civil and maritime jurisdiction.

noun. In Mexican law, the chief officer of the treasury or of the district; a high functionary having administrative and some judicial power: in this use also written, as Spanish, intendente.

adjective. Attentive.

noun. One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent

noun. An administrator in certain countries in Latin America

noun. An administrator serving the king or queen in France, Spain or Portugal.

adjective. attentive

"In this policy the intendant was the royal man-of-all-work."

amour  bagatelle  constante  contraire  croit  

attentive  superintendent