8. administration the act or process of administering.
Etymology: (1275–1325; ME < L)
Definition of 'administration'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)administration, disposal a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
2. (noun)administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
3. (noun)administration, giving medication the act of administering medication
4. (noun)presidency, presidential term, administration the tenure of a president "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"
5. (noun)government, governing, governance, government activity, administration the act of governing; exercising authority "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"
6. (noun)administration, judicature the act of meting out justice according to the law
1. (noun)administration a country's government the Clinton Administration
2. administration the management of sth business administration
Definition of 'administration'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)administration 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; management
3. (noun)administration the act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament
4. (noun)administration the management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor
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