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administration definition

ad·min·is·tra·tion (ad min′is trā′s̸hən, əd-)

noun

  1. the act of administering; management; specif., the management of governmental or institutional affairs
    1. administrators collectively
    2. the officials in the executive branch of a government and their policies and principles
  3. their term of office
  4. the administering (of punishment, medicine, a sacrament, an oath, etc.)
  5. Law the management and settling (of an estate) by an administrator or executor

Etymology: ME administracioun < OFr administration < L administratio < pp. of administrare, administer

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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