administration
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
administration/ədmɪnɪˈstreɪʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the organization and running of a business or system.
- 2 the government in power.
■ chiefly N. Amer. the term of office of a political leader or government.
■ (in the US) a government agency.
- 3 Law the management and disposition of the property of a deceased person or debtor, or of an insolvent company, by a legally appointed administrator.
- 4 the action of administering.
'administration' also found in these Oxford entries:
admin
- administrate
- anaesthesia
- analgesia
- city father
- civil service
- consistory
- corridor
- county
- Crown Colony
- DEA
- devolution
- devolve
- Eurocrat
- FAA
- FDA
- gavage
- Gulag
- incoming
- -in-waiting
- judicature
- judicial
- judicious
- justice
- justiciary
- lame duck
- letters of administration
- local government
- local option
- MBA
- NASA
- orderly officer
- Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration
- policy
- regime change
- regionalism
- staff
- town hall
- trustee
- VA
