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English

Etymology

From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration. Equivalent to administrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

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.
    • 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.
  2. (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.
    • 2025 July 28, Devan Cole, John Fritze, Priscilla Alvarez, “New documents show how passport and Social Security rules would change to enforce Trump’s birthright citizenship order”, in CNN‎[1]:
      The trove of documents from half a dozen federal agencies in recent days are a direct result of a blockbuster Supreme Court decision last month that allowed the administration to develop plans for ending birthright citizenship – even though the effort has once again been placed on hold.
  3. (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
    The Obama administration
    The Duterte administration
  4. (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[2], 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.
  5. (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
  6. (uncountable, business) Management.
  7. (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.

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Descendants

Translations

the act of administering

the executive part of government

the act of administering or tendering something to another

location of offices for this

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Danish

Noun

administration c (singular definite administrationen, plural indefinite administrationer)

  1. administration

Declension

Further reading

French

Etymology

From Old French administration, from Latin administrātiōnem.

Pronunciation

Noun

administration f (plural administrations)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

administration (plural administrationes)

  1. administration (act of administering)

Swedish

Noun

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

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