administration

English

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Etymology

From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration.

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /@d%mIn@"str\eIS@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

administration (usually uncountable; plural administrations)

1. (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.
2. (countable) A body that administers; 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.

3. (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.

4. (uncountable, business) Management.
5. (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

   The company went into voluntary administration last week.

Synonyms

• supervision, conduct, management, regulation, organization, governing

Related terms

• administer
• administrator
• administrative

Translations

the act of administering

• Albanian: qeveri (sq) Government
• Arabic: إدارة (’idāra) f, مُرَاقَبَة (ar) (murāqabah)
• Bulgarian: управление (bg) (upravlenie), ръководство (bg) (rǎkovodstvo)
• Chinese: 行政, 管理
• Czech: správa (cs) f
• Dutch: administratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: administrado (eo), administracio (eo)
• Finnish: hallinto (fi)
• German: Verwaltung (de) f
• Greek: διαχείριση (el) (diaxírisi) m
• Haitian Creole: administrasyon
• Italian: amministrazione (it)

• Japanese: 管理 (kanri)
• Malay: pentadbiran (ms), administrasi (ms)
• Norwegian: administrasjon (no) m and f
• Portuguese: administração (pt) f
• Romanian: administrare (ro)
• Scottish Gaelic: riaghladh (gd) m
• Sindhi: انتظامڪاري f
• Spanish: administración (es) f
• Swedish: administration (sv) c, förvaltning (sv) c
• Tagalog: administrasyon (tl)
• Telugu: (nirvaahamu)నిర్వాహము (te)
• Turkish: idare (tr), yönetim (tr)

the executive part of government

• Arabic: إدارة تنفيذية (’idārat tanfiðíyya) f
• Bengali: প্রশাসন (bn)
• Bulgarian: администрация (bg) (administracija)
• Dutch: bestuur (nl) n
• Esperanto: administrado (eo), administracio (eo)
• Finnish: johto (fi), hallinto (fi)
• German: Verwaltung (de) f
• Haitian Creole: administrasyon f
• Japanese: 政権 (seiken); (office) 官庁 (kanchō); (school) 行政 (gyōsei)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: به‌رێوبه‌رایه‌تی

• Maltese: amministrazzjoni f
• Norwegian: administrasjon (no) m and f
• Portuguese: administração (pt) f
• Romanian: administrație (ro)
• Russian: администрация (ru) (administrátsija) f
• Scots: admeenistration
• Serbo-Croatian: administracija (sh) f
• Sindhi: انتظاميه f
• Spanish: administración (es) f
• Tagalog: administrasyon (tl)

the act of administering or tendering something to another

• Dutch: toediening (nl) f
• German: Verabreichung f

• Portuguese: ministração (pt) f, aplicação (pt) f
• Romanian: administrare (ro)

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Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: stjórnun

References

• administration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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French

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ad.mi.nis.tʁa.sjɔ̃/

• administration

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Noun

administration f (plural administrations)

1. management (administration; the process or practice of managing)

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Swedish

Noun

administration c

1. administration

Declension

Declension of administration

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

Synonyms

• förvaltning