Administration
[ədmɪnɪ'streɪʃ(ə)n] or [əd,mɪnɪ'streʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of meting out justice according to the law.
(noun.) the act of administering medication.
(noun.) a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs).
(noun.) 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'; 'the governance of an association is responsible to its members'; 'he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment'.
Typist: Zamenhof--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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; management.
(n.) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted 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.
(n.) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
(n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
(n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
Editor: Moore
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dispensation, distribution.[2]. Management, conduct, direction, control, superintendence.[3]. Executive department (of a government), President (or other chief magistrate) and cabinet.[4]. (Law.) Management of an estate (of an intestate).
Editor: Rudolf
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An ingenious abstraction in politics designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
Typed by Evangeline
Examples
- The Mexican war was a political war, and the administration conducting it desired to make party capital out of it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Scott was a Whig and the administration was democratic. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Unless he has left a will (which is not at all likely) I shall take out letters of administration. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The trinity of school topics is subject matter, methods, and administration or government. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There had been great delay in obtaining the authority of Congress for the raising of the troops asked for by the administration. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A characteristic feature of the modern practice of medicine is in improved forms of its administration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The chief personage aboard proved to be Jacob Thompson, Secretary of the Interior under the administration of President Buchanan. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All the members of the administration besides, trade more or less upon their own account; and it is in vain to prohibit them from doing so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Miss Summerson has such a knowledge of detail and such a capacity for the administration of detail that she knows all about it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was to the divine Emperor that his book was dedicated as a pro test against the administration of Roman public works. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Was Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hence, England was constantly finding fault with the administration at Washington because we were not able to keep up an effective blockade. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The expense of the administration of justice, too, may no doubt be considered as laid out for the benefit of the whole society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But socialism has never gone on to a thorough examination of that proviso for efficient administration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Under such an administration therefore, such works are almost always entirely neglected. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Edited by Bridget