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administration
[ ad-min-uh-strey-shuhn ]
noun
- the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
- the function of a political state in exercising its governmental duties.
- the duty or duties of an administrator in exercising the executive functions of the position.
- the management by an administrator of such duties.
- a body of administrators, especially in government.
- Often Administration. the executive branch of the U.S. government during a particular president's term of office: The current administration has threatened to veto the new bill.
The Reagan administration followed President Carter's.
The current administration has threatened to veto the new bill.
- the period of service of a governmental administrator or body of governmental administrators.
- any group entrusted with executive or administrative powers:
the administration of a college.
- Law. management of a decedent's estate by an executor or administrator or of a trust estate by a trustee.
- an act of dispensing, especially formally:
administration of the sacraments.
- supervision of the taking of an oath or the like.
- application, as of a salve or medicine.
administration
/ əˌɪɪˈٰɪʃə /
noun
- management of the affairs of an organization, such as a business or institution
- the duties of an administrator
- the body of people who administer an organization
- the conduct of the affairs of government
- term of office: often used of presidents, governments, etc
- the executive branch of government along with the public service; the government as a whole
- often capital the political executive, esp of the US; the government
- a government board, agency, authority, etc
- property law
- the conduct or disposal of the estate of a deceased person
- the management by a trustee of an estate subject to a trust
- the administering of something, such as a sacrament, oath, or medical treatment
- the thing that is administered
Derived Forms
- ˈԾٰپ, adverb
- ˈԾٰپ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·i·ٰtDz· adjective
- t··i·ٰtDz noun adjective
- a·i·ٰtDz noun
- a·i·ٰtDz noun
- a·i·ٰtDz adjective
- -·i·ٰtDz noun
- ܲa·i·ٰtDz noun
- p··i·ٰtDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of administration1
Example Sentences
The arrest appears to heighten the stakes in the Trump administration’s aggressive actions against judges who have challenged its immigration crackdown.
A federal judge in California on Thursday barred the Trump administration from denying or conditioning the use of federal funds to “sanctuary” jurisdictions, saying that portions of President Trump’s executive orders were unconstitutional.
He was talking about the hundreds of Venezuelan men expelled from the country without due process and sent to a prison in El Salvador, where, according to the administration, they should remain until they die.
Pollsters always go out into the country as a president reaches this milestone and the results this time show a floundering administration that's lost the support of a sizeable majority on virtually every issue.
In defense of its deportations, Trump administration lawyers have pointed to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and said it gave the president wartime powers to quickly deport foreigners.
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