A Topical Dictionary: Search for administration

Dictionary Results For "administration" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From , ; compare French .

Pronunciation

IPA: /ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/,
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Noun

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.
A body who administers; 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.
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.

Translations

Arabic: (’idāra)
Czech: {{t-|cs|správa|f}}
Dutch: administratie
German: {{t+|de|Verwaltung|f}}
Japanese: 管理 (kanri)

Norwegian: {{t+|no|administrasjon|m|f}}
Portuguese: {{t|pt|administração|f}}
Sindhi:
Telugu: (nirvaahamu){{t|te|నిర్వాహము|sc=Telu}}

Arabic: (’idārat tanfiðíyya)
Croatian: {{t+|hr|administracija|f}}
Dutch:
Finnish: ,
German: {{t+|de|Verwaltung|f}}
Japanese: 政権 (seiken); (office) 官庁 (kanchō); (school) 行政 (gyōsei)

Kurdish:
Maltese: amministrazzjoni
Norwegian: {{t+|no|administrasjon|m|f}}
Portuguese: {{t|pt|administração|f}}
Sindhi:

Dutch: toediening
German: Verabreichung

Portuguese: {{t|pt|ministração|f}}, {{t|pt|aplicação|f}}

: stjórnun
: administración

References

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French

Pronunciation

IPA: /ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃/
An audio transcript can be found at Fr-administration.ogg

Noun

management (administration; the process or practice of managing)

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Administration \Ad*min`is*tra"tion\ (?; 277), n. [OE.
administracioun, L. administratio: cf. F. administration.]
1. 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.
[1913 Webster]

His financial administration was of a piece with his
military administration. --Macaulay.
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2. 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.
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A mild and popular administration. --Macaulay.
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The administration has been opposed in parliament.
--Johnson.
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3. 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.
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4. (Law)
(a) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of
the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no
competent executor.
(b) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an
executor, the strictly corresponding term execution
not being in use.
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Administration with the will annexed, administration
granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or
where his appointment of an executor for any cause has
failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.
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Syn: Conduct; management; direction; regulation; execution;
dispensation; distribution.
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WordNet administration
n 1: a method of tending to (especially business) matters [syn: disposal]
2: 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" [syn: governance, governing body, establishment,
brass, organization, organisation]
3: the act of administering medication [syn: giving medication]
4: the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the
Eisenhower administration" [syn: presidency, {presidential
term}]

Moby Dictionary
academic dean , accomplishment , achievement , administering ,
administrator , application , applying , archon , auspices , authority ,
bestowal , board , board of directors , board of regents ,
board of trustees , bureaucracy , cabinet , cadre , care , chancellor ,
charge , chief executive , chief executive officer , civil government ,
claws , clutches , command , command function , commission , completion ,
conduct , control , council , cure , custodianship , custody , dean ,
dean of men , dean of women , decision-making , delivery , direction ,
directorate , directory , disbursal , disbursement , discharge ,
discipline , dispatch , dispensation , dispersion , disposal ,
disposition , distribution , dole , doling , doling out , dominion ,
dosage , dosing , effectuation , empery , empire , enactment , enforcing ,
execution , executive , executive arm , executive committee ,
executive director , executive function , executive hierarchy ,
executive officer , executive secretary , forcing , forcing on ,
form of government , furnishing , giving , giving out , governance ,
governing board , governing body , government , grip , guardianship ,
guidance , hand , handling , hands , headmaster , headmistress ,
hierarchy , higher echelons , higher-ups , implementation ,
infrastructure , interlocking directorate , iron hand , issuance ,
jurisdiction , keeping , magistrate , management , managing director ,
master , meting out , ministry , officer , official , officialdom ,
officiation , oversight , passing around , pastorage , pastorate ,
pastorship , patronage , paying out , performance , perpetration ,
political organization , polity , power , prefect , prelacy ,
prescribing , president , prexy , principal , protectorship , provision ,
provost , raj , rector , regime , regimen , regnancy , regulation , reign ,
rule , ruling class , ruling classes , safe hands , secretary ,
sovereignty , steering committee , stewardship , superintendence ,
supervision , supplying , sway , system of government , talons ,
the Establishment , the administration , the authorities , the brass ,
the executive , the ingroup , the interests , the people upstairs ,
the power elite , the power structure , the top , them , they ,
top brass , transaction , treasurer , tutelage , vice-chancellor ,
vice-president , ward , warden , wardenship , wardship , watch and ward ,
wing

ADMINISTRATION, trusts. The management of the estate of an intestate, a minor, a lunatic, an habitual drunkard, or other person who is incapable of managing his own affairs, entrusted to an administrator or other trustee by authority of law. In a more confined sense, and in which it will be used in this article, administration is the management of an intestate's estate, or of the estate of a testator who, at the time administration was granted, had no executor. 2. Administration is granted by a public officer duly authorized to delegate the trust; he is sometimes called surrogate, judge of probate, register of wills and for granting letters of administration. It is to be granted to such persons as the statutory provisions of the several states direct. In general the right of administration belongs to him who" has the right to the venue of the personalty: as if A make his will, and appoint B his executor, who dies intestate, and C is the legatee of the residue of A's estate, C has the right of administration cum testamento annexo. 2 Strange, 956; 12 Mod. 437, 306; 1 Jones, 225; 1 Croke. 201; 2 Leo. 55; 1 Vent. 217. 3. There are several kinds of administrations, besides the usual kind which gives to the administrator the management of all the personal estate of the deceased for an unlimited time. Administration durante minore oetate, administration durante absentia, administration pendente lite, administration de bonis non, administration cum testamento annexo.

ADMINISTRATION, government. The management of the affairs of the government; this word is also applied to the persons entrusted with the management of the public affairs.

ADMINISTRATION, 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.