# administration
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

administration (usually uncountable, plural administrations)
* (uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
* (countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
    Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.
* (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
    The Obama administration
    The Duterte administration
* (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
** 2021 November 6, Prachatai, “Chiang Mai Administrative Court rules in favour of CMU student”, in Prachatai‎, Bangkok: Prachatai, retrieved 2021-11-06:The Chiang Mai Administrative Court ruled in favour of students from the Media Arts and Design Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, who filed for a temporary injunction on 18 October after the University administration prohibited them from showing their final theses in the University Art Centre because some pieces dealt with social and political themes.
* (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
    the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament
    oral administration of insulin
* (uncountable, business) Management.
* (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
    The company went into voluntary administration last week.
** 2024 September 4, Philip Haigh, “Can public-private partnerships be made to deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 52:The other ambitions, and much of Prescott's plan, foundered just south of Hatfield that October, when a GNER express derailed on a shattered rail […] , plunging the railway into a crisis that led to private track owner Railtrack being put into administration.

#### Derived terms

* administrational
* administration of the fulness of times
* antiadministration
* business administration
* coadministration
* letter of administration
* maladministration
* male-administration
* misadministration
* mono-administration
* multi-administration
* National Aeronautics and Space Administration
* National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
* nonadministration
* overadministration
* postadministration
* preadministration
* proadministration
* public administration
* readministration
* route of administration
* self-administration
* subadministration

#### Related terms

* administer
* administrative
* administrator

#### Translations

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### References

* “administration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Danish
### Noun

administration c (singular definite administrationen, plural indefinite administrationer)
* administration

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “administration” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

From Old French administration, from Latin administrātiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

administration f (plural administrations)
* management (administration; the process or practice of managing)

#### Derived terms

* conseil d’administration

### Further reading

* “administration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Interlingua
### Noun

administration (plural administrationes)
* administration (act of administering)

## Swedish
### Noun

administration c
* administration (act of administering)
* an administration (body that administers)
* (government, politics) an administration (especially in US politics)
    Bush-administrationenthe Bush administration
* administration (of a medicine or the like)
    oral administrationoral administration

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | administration | administrations |
| singular | definite | administrationen | administrationens |
| plural | indefinite | administrationer | administrationers |
| plural | definite | administrationerna | administrationernas |

#### Related terms

* administrera

### References

* administration in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* administration in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)