administration.
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.
Meaning & usage
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 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.
The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
The Obama administration
The Duterte administration
A body that administers; a body of administrators.
The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament
oral administration of insulin
Management.
An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
The company went into voluntary administration last week.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration. Equivalent to administrate + -ion.
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