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administration definition

ad·min·is·tra·tion (ad min′is trā′s̸hən, əd-)

noun

  1. the act of administering; management; specif., the management of governmental or institutional affairs
    1. administrators collectively
    2. the officials in the executive branch of a government and their policies and principles
  3. their term of office
  4. the administering (of punishment, medicine, a sacrament, an oath, etc.)
  5. Law the management and settling (of an estate) by an administrator or executor

Etymology: ME administracioun < OFr administration < L administratio < pp. of administrare, administer

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administration

n.

  1. The direction of affairs

    management, government, supervision, command, superintendence, guidance, surveillance, conduct, conducting, directing, direction, decision making, decision theory, oversight, organization, agency, authority, disposition, policing, treatment, handling, strategy, policy, ordering, legislation, jurisdiction, execution, regulation, performance, rule, order, enforcement, charge, control, power, husbandry, housekeeping, stewardship.

  2. Those who direct affairs

    directors, administrators, officers, supervisors, executives, superintendents, advisers, command, stewards, strategists, officials, committee, board, board of directors, board of governors, board of overseers, executive, executive office, executive branch, legislature, office of the president, president, presidency, chief executive, cabinet, ministry, commander, chair, chairman, general, admiral, commander in chief, central office, headquarters, the management, executive committee, bureau, consulate, consulate general, embassy, legation, department, Washington, chargé d'affaires, governmental power, party in power, brass*; front office*, the powers that be*, (insider's) insider*, the man*.

  3. The period in which an administration, sense 2, is operative

    term, term of office, tenure, presidency, regime, reign, dynasty, incumbency, power, stay.


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administration Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • devolve: Whilst the English Sports Council is funded through the UK government, the other three receive their funds through their own devolved administrations.

Adjective modifier

  • Conservative: Control of the GLC alternated between Labor and Conservative administrations in the 1960s and 1970s.
  • intravenous: Intravenous administration of arginine has reduced blood pressure in humans in some reports.

Modifies a noun

  • fee: We will deduct an administration fee of GBP 100 in cases where a refund is granted.

Noun used with modifier

  • clinton: Are worried about looking to pass as what we for the clinton administration.
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administration quotes

It issaid that England invented the phrase,'Her Majesty's Opposition'; that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polityas administration itself. 51

-Bagehot,Walter

  All this will not be finished in the first100 days, nor will it be finished in the first1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administrationönor even, perhaps, in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stockcompanies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the employees of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.

-Mill,John Stuart

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