administration
IPA: ædmɪnɪstrˈeɪʃʌn
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.
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Examples of "administration" in Sentences
- The McCain administration is going to hit the ground talking?
- THe only time US attorneys are fire without a change in administration is when categorical corruption or criminal acts are discovered.
- The European arm of the failed investment bank Lehman Brothers, now in administration, is also a big investor, with a holding of close to 5%.
- The Commission changed the connotation of the word administration from its long-held simple meaning of the personnel of executive departments to the art of managing the public business.
- Mr. Koo did not deal with the Customs _administration_, nevertheless _The Times_ assumed that his purpose was to get the administration into the hands of the Chinese on account of the opportunities of lucrative corruption which it would afford.
- It sounds like a plot lifted from a John LeCarre novel, but the real-life poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB (morphed out of the old KGB) agent and vocal critic of the Putin administration, is a real-life thriller waiting to be solved by an [...]
- It sounds like a plot lifted from a John LeCarre novel, but the real-life poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, ex-FSB (morphed out of the old KGB) agent and vocal critic of the Putin administration, is a real-life thriller waiting to be solved by an intrepid counterspy, or something or other.
- ; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Offering the committee incriminating, documentary evidence to substantiate his charges, Bugliosi urged the committee to make a \'criminal referral\' to the Justice Department to begin a criminal investigation of Bush and members of his administration to determine whether first degree murder charges should be brought against \'certain members of this administration\ '.
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