superintendence

English

Noun

superintendence (countable and uncountable, plural superintendences)

1. The act of superintending; supervision
   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     […] then the building began, under the superintendence of the pigs.