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administration
A	noun
	1	administration, giving medication
				the act of administering medication
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚activity ╚work ╚care; attention; aid; tending ╚treatment ╚medical care; medical aid ╚therapy ╚medication ╚administration, giving medication ╚sedation; drugging ╚drip feed
	2	administration, disposal
				a method of tending to (especially business) matters
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚group action ╚social control ╚management; direction ╚administration, disposal ╚polity ╚running ╚organization; organisation ╚conducting ╚justice; judicature ╚line management
	3	administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation
				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 rec
		Category Tree: group; grouping ╚social group ╚gathering; assemblage ╚body ╚administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation ╚judiciary; bench ╚executive ╚top brass ╚Curia
	4	presidency, presidential term, administration
				the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚fundamental quantity; fundamental measure ╚time period; period of time; period ╚term ╚tenure; term of office; incumbency ╚presidency, presidential term, administration

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a boast that the administration says it has to take at face value
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the deal that the Bush administration "has struck" with South Korea.
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