coadministrate

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ administrate.

Verb

coadministrate (third-person singular simple present coadministrates, present participle coadministrating, simple past and past participle coadministrated)

1. (transitive) To administer (a drug, etc.) along with another material.

   Synonym: coadminister

2. To administer, administrate, or manage jointly
   • 1993 August 16, Gustavo Cordova Avila, “Magical User Interface?”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Personally, as I'm coadministrating Aminet, I fear lots of uploaded archives
     >- either all containing the whole MUI library/object set and eating up valuable
     > disk space and download bandwith
     >- or not containing all MUI libraries and thus flooding my mailbox with
     > questions like "the program does not work".

   • 2005 January 23, Karl Burg, “What is the Base of the Trade Union Policy? Two views (or one?)”, in alt.politics.socialism.trotsky‎^[2] (Usenet):

     It is exactly this, what the trade unions are doing all of the time.
     They fight for their aim to get the permission to coadministrate the
     political life of this country. But they do not want to do this
     against the ruling politics. In its critic of this politics you can
     see the social democratic dream of the SoZ-ites to achieve a workers
     friendly organization of "this country". The SoZ itself is already
     thinking in the same national categories as do the trade unions. They
     dream of a real consequent workers friendly BRD.

   • 2022 July 4, Tony Wade, Lost Restaurants of Fairfield, California‎^[3], Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 9:

     In my first book, Growing up in Fairfield, California, there is a chpater titled "Let's Eat!" It was inspired by the fact that in the tend-thousand-plus-member-strong Facebook group "I Grew Up in Fairlfield, Too" that I coadministrate, so many of th threatds people discuss end up defaulting to food.

Usage notes

Coadministrate is widely regarded as a non-standard alternative to coadminister, but in some dialects it is preferred or accepted, and in some industries it is preferred as a jargon term in certain contexts.

See the usage notes for administrate for more details.

Translations

to administrate or manage jointly

• Polish: współadministrować impf