administration

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• audio (US)

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

administration (usually uncountable, plural administrations)

1. (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.
2. (countable) A body that 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.

   Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.

3. (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.

4. (uncountable, business) Management.
5. (uncountable, law, Britain) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

   The company went into voluntary administration last week.

References

• administration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology

From Old French administration, from Latin administratio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

• administration

  (file)

Noun

administration f (plural administrations)

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

Further reading

• “administration” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Noun

administration c

1. administration