admin
/ˈædˌmɪn/
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South Asia/ˈəɖ.mɪn/
admin noun: administration, or administrative work.
Noun
admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)
- Administration, or administrative work.
- There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child.
- Synonyms:
- red tape
- An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).
- Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.”2020 August 17, Juliet Eilperin, “Trump finalizes drilling plan for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”, in The Washington Post
- “I had word from The Trump admin that theyre^([sic]) on top of things,” Mr. Tate wrote to someone close to him, in a message reviewed by The New York Times.2025 December 10, Megan Twohey, Isabella Kwai, quoting Andrew Tate, “How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...
- The administrative or managerial body of a company or other organization.
- Barren dirt plots behind knee-high metal fences indicated admin must have cut the flower budget.2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck
- An administrator (one who administers affairs).
- Georgia’s election administrators are fighting bizarre conspiracy theories, ballooning costs and coronavirus-related staffing problems as they prepare for the state’s contentious, nationally watched Senate runoffs next week.2020 December 28, Zach Montellaro, “Georgia election admins battle Covid and conspiracies ahead of Senate runoffs”, in Politico
- A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).
- Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.
- A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.
- The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.
Verb
admin (third-person singular simple present admins, present participle admining or (uncommon) adminning, simple past and past participle admined or (uncommon) adminned)
- To serve as an administrator for or of.
admin meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
admin in Hindi
- एडमिन
admin in Urdu
- ایڈمن
admin in Bengali
- অ্যাডমিন
admin in Telugu
- అడ్మిన్
More languagesFewer languages
- admin in Malayalam
- അഡ്മിൻ
- admin in Kannada
- ಮೇಲುಗ, ನಡೆಸುಗ, ನೋಡಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವವ
- admin in Malay
- min
- admin in Persian
- ادمین admin
Examples of admin in a sentence
- The file is writable only for users in the admin group.
- As soon as the admin arrived I was kickbanned from the channel with no explanation.
- The admin imposed a soft ban on the user.
Synonyms of admin
Forms of admin
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | admins |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | admins |
| present participle | admining |
| present participle uncommon | adminning |
| past participle | admined |
| past | admined |
| past participle uncommon | adminned |
| past uncommon | adminned |
Origin of admin
Clipping of administrator or administration.
Words formed from admin
Phrases with admin
Questions about admin
- What does admin mean?
- Admin means administration, or administrative work.
- What is admin in Hindi?
- Admin in Hindi is एडमिन. See Admin meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is admin?
- Admin can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce admin?
- Admin is pronounced /ˈædˌmɪn/.
- What is the plural of admin?
- The plural of admin is admins.
Words near admin in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: admin (page history and authors); admin (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); admin (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); admin (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); admin (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); admin (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); admin (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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