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Superintend vs Superintendency - What's the difference?

superintend | superintendency |

As a verb superintend

is to oversee the work of others; to supervise.

As a noun superintendency is

(uncountable) the condition of being a superintendent.

superintend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
  • To administer the affairs of something or someone.
  • * Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • *:A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.

    • Related terms

    * superintendence

    superintendency

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being a superintendent
  • (countable) The act of superintending