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English

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Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Noun

    administration (usually uncountable, plural administrations)

    2. (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.
    4. (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.
    5. (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
      The Obama administration
      The Duterte administration
    6. (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.
    7. (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
    9. (uncountable, business) Management.
    10. (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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    Danish

    Noun

    administration c (singular definite administrationen, plural indefinite administrationer)

    1. administration

    Declension

    Declension of administration
    common
    gender     		singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative administration administrationen administrationer administrationerne
    genitive administrations administrationens administrationers administrationernes

    Further reading

    French

    French Wikipedia has an article on:
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    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

      Declension

      Declension of administration
      nominative genitive
      singular indefinite administration administrations
      definite administrationen administrationens
      plural indefinite administrationer administrationers
      definite administrationerna administrationernas

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