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Administration   /ædmˌɪnɪstrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Administration

noun
1.
A method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs).  Synonym: disposal.
2.
The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something.  Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, governing body, organisation, organization.  "The governance of an association is responsible to its members" , "He quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
3.
The act of administering medication.  Synonym: giving medication.
4.
The tenure of a president.  Synonyms: presidency, presidential term.
5.
The act of governing; exercising authority.  Synonyms: governance, governing, government, government activity.  "He had considerable experience of government"
6.
The act of meting out justice according to the law.  Synonym: judicature.



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"Administration" Quotes from Famous Books



... commanders themselves, who dealt directly with the receivers in their area. They paid their quota or "responsions" biennially, and were subject to inspection from their Grand Priors; commanderies were rewards to aged Knights, and good administration brought ...
— Knights of Malta, 1523-1798 • R. Cohen

... State Press Association and holds high official position in the Woman's Relief Corps. Mrs. Haskell is the wife of a prominent lawyer and politician. She held the office of mayor for two terms and the last time her entire board of aldermen were women. Her administration of municipal affairs was so satisfactory that she was besought to accept a ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... of three tiers of arches, the vault within the innermost tier being 14 ft. in diameter. The administration of the sewers, in the time of the Republic, was in the hands of the censors, but special officers called curatores cloacarum were employed during the Empire, and the workmen who repaired and cleansed the sewers were condemned criminals. These ancient sewers, which have existed for twenty-five ...
— Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine • James Sands Elliott

... to act, but the chancellor of the exchequer, who, contrary to all precedent, had not been taken into counsel, strongly protested against the nomination, as soon as he was informed of it. Out of this dispute arose the ignoble fall of the Goderich administration, though it was preceded by more serious dissensions on foreign policy. The king, whose activity revived with the increasing weakness of his ministers, committed himself, without asking their opinion, to a hearty approval of ...
— The Political History of England - Vol XI - From Addington's Administration to the close of William - IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) • George Brodrick

... this, equally real though intangible, was the desire of the Church to have the whole of life under its own direct control. It instinctively feared methods of thought or processes of investigation not directly a part of its own imperial administration of life. Some subtle distrust of the human reason went along with all this. As a result the Church, in the main, threw herself against the more independent processes of scientific thought, sought to subdue all the facts ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins


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