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Meaning of 'administration'
Meaning of 'administration' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Administration 
[ n.]
- 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. [ n.]- 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.
- 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.
- The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
- The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
Meaning of 'administration' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. administration [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
Example in sentence:
- he claims that the present administration is corrupt;
- he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment;
- the governance of an association is responsible to its members
Meaning (2):
- the act of governing; exercising authority
- the act of governing; exercising authority
Example in sentence:
- he had considerable experience of government;
- regulations for the governing of state prisons
Meaning (3):
- the tenure of a president
- the tenure of a president
Example in sentence:
- things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration
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