administration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the persons or committees or departments etc., who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

   They claimed that the present administration was corrupt.

2. 2
   noun

   the tenure of a president

   things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration

3. 3
   noun

   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.

   […] 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. 4
   noun

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.

   The Obama administration

6. 6
   noun

   A body that administers; a body of administrators.

   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. 7
   noun

   The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.

   the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament

8. 8
   noun

   An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

   The company went into voluntary administration last week.

Etymology

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