intendenza

intendancy

noun een-ten-DEN-tsah Rare

Origin: From French intendance, from intendant (superintendent).

Also means

administrative office

Usage Note

Intendenza refers to a regional administrative or supply authority, historically the office of an intendente (intendant) in pre-Unification Italian states. In modern Italian it survives mainly in institutional names: Intendenza di Finanza was the provincial revenue office (now replaced by the Agenzia delle Entrate). It is a formal, bureaucratic term with little everyday usage. Its plural is intendenze.

Examples

"L'intendenza di finanza gestiva le tasse locali."

Natural Translation

The revenue intendancy managed local taxes.

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