noun

• (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.
• (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.
• (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
• (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
• (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
• (uncountable, business) Management.
• (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.