administration
See also: Administration
English
Etymology
From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration.
Pronunciation
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[1], 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
- 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
Translations
the act of administering
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the executive part of government
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the act of administering or tendering something to another
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location of offices for this
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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)
Declension
Declension of administration
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | administration | administrationen | administrationer | administrationerne |
| genitive | administrations | administrationens | administrationers | administrationernes |
Further reading
French
Etymology
From Old French administration, from Latin administrātiōnem.
Pronunciation
Noun
administration f (plural administrations)
- management (administration; the process or practice of managing)
Derived terms
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-administrationen
- the Bush administration
- administration (of a medicine or the like)
- oral administration
- oral administration
Declension
Declension of administration
Related terms
References
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