administration

From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration.

• IPA^(key): /ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

administration (usually uncountable, plural administrations)

2. (uncountable) 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.
   • 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 420:

     […] the fact that the propertied classes are no longer the best educated, and the fact that the large number of people who owe their position solely to their general education do not possess that experience of the working of the economic system which the administration of property gives are important to understanding the role of the intellectual.

4. (countable, government, politics) 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.

5. (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.

   The Obama administration

   The Duterte administration

6. (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
   • 2021 November 6, Prachatai, “Chiang Mai Administrative Court rules in favour of CMU student”, in Prachatai‎^[1], Bangkok: Prachatai, retrieved 6 November 2021:

     The Chiang Mai Administrative Court ruled in favour of students from the Media Arts and Design Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, who filed for a temporary injunction on 18 October after the University administration prohibited them from showing their final theses in the University Art Centre because some pieces dealt with social and political themes.

7. (uncountable) 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

9. (uncountable, business) Management.
10. (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

    The company went into voluntary administration last week.

    • 2024 September 4, Philip Haigh, “Can public-private partnerships be made to deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 52:

      The other ambitions, and much of Prescott's plan, foundered just south of Hatfield that October, when a GNER express derailed on a shattered rail […] , plunging the railway into a crisis that led to private track owner Railtrack being put into administration.

• “administration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

administration c (singular definite administrationen, plural indefinite administrationer)

1. administration

• “administration” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old French administration, from Latin administrātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

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administration f (plural administrations)

1. management (administration; the process or practice of managing)

• conseil d'administration

• “administration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

administration (plural administrationes)

1. administration (act of administering)

administration c

1. administration (act of administering)
2. an administration (body that administers)
3. (government, politics) an administration (especially in US politics)

   Bush-administrationen

   the Bush administration

4. administration (of a medicine or the like)

   oral administration

   oral administration

• administrera

• administration in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• administration in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)