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

Edited by Bridget

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