admin.

Adjective

administrative (comparative more administrative, superlative most administrative)

1. Of or relating to administering or administration.
   • administrative costs

   Synonyms:

   administrational

Noun

administration (usually uncountable, plural administrations)

1. (usually) 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.
   • […] 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...1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 420
2. (countable, usually) 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.
3. (usually) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
   • The Obama administration
4. (countable, usually) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
   • 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...2021 November 6, Prachatai, “Chiang Mai Administrative Court rules in favour of CMU student”, in Prachatai, Bangkok: Prachatai, retrieved 06 Nov 2021
5. (usually) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
   • the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament
6. (usually) Management.

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