administration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
government
law
politics
Etymology: From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration. Equivalent to administrate + -ion.
Base: administrate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: administrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: […] the fact that the propertied classes are no longer the best educated, and the fact that the large number of people who owe their position solely to their general education do not possess that experience of the working of the economic system which the administration of property gives are important to understanding the role of the intellectual.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.
The trove of documents from half a dozen federal agencies in recent days are a direct result of a blockbuster Supreme Court decision last month that allowed the administration to develop plans for ending birthright citizenship – even though the effort has once again been placed on hold.
gloss: The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Obama administration
The Duterte administration
gloss: A body that administers; a body of administrators.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament
oral administration of insulin
gloss: Management.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
examples: The company went into voluntary administration last week.
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.
Synonyms: administration
direction
governance
management
supervision
Related words: administer
administrative
administrator
Derived words: administrational
administrationese
administration of the fulness of times
administrationspeak
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
Translations:
lang: Farefare
word: yel-mãalgɔ zẽ'a