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[ ədminis'treiʃən ]   Pronunciation:
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  • Noun: administration  ad`mini'streyshun
    1. A method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
      - disposal 
    2. The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
      "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"
      - governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation [Brit] 
    3. The act of administering medication
      - giving medication 
    4. The tenure of a president
      "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"
      - presidency, presidential term 
    5. The act of governing; exercising authority
      - government, governing, governance, government activity 
    6. The act of meting out justice according to the law
      - judicature

    Derived forms: administrations

    See also: administer, administrative

    Type of: body, direction, incumbency, justice, management, medication, social control, tenure, term of office

    Part of: authorities, government, regime

    Encyclopedia: Administration Administration, rectal Administration, topical


  • [Business]
    noun

    BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

    1 (BrE also admin, informal) [U]

    the activities that are done in order to plan, organize and run a business or other institution:

    the day-to-day administration of a company

    the Sales Administration department

    administration costs

    ❖ day-to-day/general/office/routine administration

    2 [U]

    the process or act of organizing the way that sth is done:

    the administration of the new tax

    3 [C]

    the people who plan, organize and run a business or an institution:

    the national telecommunications administrations

    4 (often Administration) [C]

    the government of a country, especially the US:

    Successive administrations have failed to solve the country's economic problems.

    5 [C] (Law )

    the management of the financial affairs of a business that cannot pay its debts by an independent person:

    The company will go into administration if it cannot find extra funds.


  • [Economics]
    The situation of a company in financial difficulties whose affairs are put into the hands of an administrator by court order. The object of administration is to enable the company to survive as a going concern, or if that proves impossible, to get a better price for its assets than immediate liquidation would produce.

  • [Law]
    n. 1. The collection of assets, payment of debts, and distribution to the beneficiaries of property in the estate of a deceased person. See also GRANT OF REPRESENTATION.
    2. The granting of letters of administration to the estate of a deceased person to an administrator, when there is no executor under the will.
    3. The process of carrying out duties imposed by a trust in connection with the property of a person of unsound mind or a bankrupt.

  • [Medicine]
    The planning and managing of programs,services,and resources. n
    1 : the act of giving medication ‹administration of a dose of antitoxin —Morris Fishbein›
    2 : the direction of the execution of something ‹administration of a quarantine law —V. G. Heiser›

Examples

  • administration was not his strong point.
  • Out of position, out of administration.
  • Lactation is suppressed by administration of androgens.
  • Light had no previous experience of administration.
  • I'm majoring in business administration in college.
  • The normal channels of administration were abandoned.
  • The teachers are responsible to the school administration.
  • Leaking secrets becomes a method of administration.
  • Provincial administration was equally black spot.
  • The enterprise has been put under local administration.
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