superintendent
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6.0
- noun
- /ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛndənt/
:
superintendente
- In the absence of an official community or public relations person, superintendents normally assume this role.
- principal and superintendent
- school superintendent
- district superintendent
Next up we have Superintendent Ryan Walters.
- Next up we have Superintendent Ryan Walters.
- Who was the Superintendent of West Point when the war broke out?
- I find the higher up that, you know, having to deal with superintendents and chief constables, there's no compassion.
- And so oftentimes what would happen is the BIA Superintendent would appoint a person, a friendly Indian, to be a judge on these courts.
- Reward and punishment grades, you know, detention, the pyramidal hierarchy, who's overseeing who all the way up to the superintendents.
- There was a Chief Superintendent, Detective Chief Superintendent that I worked for, who was utterly obsessed with Joey Pyle, with some justification.
- You can be on the school school board, you can run for school Superintendent.
- What's your best advice to this Superintendent under this circumstance?
- They need their moms and dads and teachers and superintendents to protect them.
- And just the other day, a story broke where the Holmdel High School Superintendent was found out to be shitting on the track of their school.
Examples
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And today we want to highlight the Superintendent of the state of Oklahoma.
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So we found out from people like the Superintendent of police in Chicago, who told us that he had a real problem.
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Who was the Superintendent of West Point when the war broke out?
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Parents, board members, president, Superintendent, everybody help our students.
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I think the fact that the superintendent was totally on board really boosted my confidence.
Academic text (2008) -
The first call any administrator should make is to the superintendent at home.
Academic text (2013) -
The Board of Education and the District Superintendent don't think that music is important for our children.
Fiction book (1999) -
We've had so many meetings with the principal and the superintendent.
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Superintendent Thayer requests an immediate audience.
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The school superintendent announced new safety measures to protect the students.
Synonyms
∞
1.9
A person who leads a group or community
∞
1.0
A person in charge of a group or workers
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2.2
A person who is in charge of a group or organization
∞
1.6
A person who controls money and work in a company
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3.0
A person who manages resources and spending in an organization
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5.1
A person who manages a government department or public service
411
4.1
A senior government official who leads a major department
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2.8
A person who watches workers and helps them do their jobs correctly
232
3.7
A person who manages and runs an organization like a business or government agency
232
4.6
A person who runs a company or organization day to day and reports to the board of directors
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4.5
A senior person who manages a government department
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3.0
A person who is in charge of all parts of a business or department
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3.2
An officer who is in charge of a police department
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3.2
A person who runs a school, often a private school
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3.2
A person who manages an online group or website
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8.2
An officer in charge of a military unit or a school for soldiers
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4.6
A senior officer in charge of a city's police force
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3.6
The person who runs a company and makes its most important decisions
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4.8
A person who watches and directs workers at places like a factory or construction site
23
2.5
A person who runs a school and leads the teachers
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3.0
A person who leads a department in a company or school
15
8.0
A senior official in government or the police who leads a region
14
3.9
A woman who is the head teacher of a school, often a private or girls' school
10
3.5
A person appointed, not elected, to run a city's daily government work
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6.3
A person who is in charge of a company or group
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4.1
A person who manages all the schools in a district
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4.1
The head of the United States Department of Education who oversees national education policy
4
3.2
A person who looks after several stores in one area and helps their staff
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8.4
A person who is the most important leader in a group or organization
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3.2
A person who leads a school and is responsible for its teachers and students
Antonyms
Compounds
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
superintendent = superintend (semi-transparent) = superintend + ent
The noun is regularly formed from the verb 'superintend' by the suffix '-ent' to indicate an agent/role.
Etymology
Superintendent comes from two parts: super- 'over' and intend 'to direct', like in supervise. So, a superintendent is someone who 'directs from above' and is in charge of a department, the police, or a school.