See also: admin. and Admin.

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of administrator or administration.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: ăd'mĭn", ədmĭn', IPA(key): /ˈædˌmɪn/, /ədˈmɪn/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

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admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)

  1. (uncountable, informal) Administration, or administrative work.
    Synonym: red tape
    There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child.
  2. (countable, informal) An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).
    • 2020 August 17, Juliet Eilperin, “Trump finalizes drilling plan for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”, in The Washington Post[2]:
      Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.”
  3. (uncountable, informal) The administrative or managerial body of a company or other organization.
    • 2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck:
      Barren dirt plots behind knee-high metal fences indicated admin must have cut the flower budget.
  4. (countable, informal) An administrator (one who administers affairs).
    • 2020 December 28, Zach Montellaro, “Georgia election admins battle Covid and conspiracies ahead of Senate runoffs”, in Politico[3]:
      Georgia’s election administrators are fighting bizarre conspiracy theories, ballooning costs and coronavirus-related staffing problems as they prepare for the state’s contentious, nationally watched Senate runoffs next week.
  5. (countable, informal, computing) A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).
    Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.
  6. (countable, informal, Internet) A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.
    The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.

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Verb

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admin (third-person singular simple present admins, present participle admining or adminning, simple past and past participle admined or adminned)

  1. (transitive, computing, informal) To serve as an administrator for or of.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English admin.

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Noun

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admin m (plural admins)

  1. (Internet) admin, administrator (user with special privileges)

Hungarian

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Etymology

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Clipping of adminisztrátor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɒdmin]
  • Hyphenation: ad‧min
  • Rhymes: -in

Noun

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admin (plural adminok)

  1. administrator

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative admin adminok
accusative admint adminokat
dative adminnak adminoknak
instrumental adminnal adminokkal
causal-final adminért adminokért
translative adminná adminokká
terminative adminig adminokig
essive-formal adminként adminokként
essive-modal
inessive adminban adminokban
superessive adminon adminokon
adessive adminnál adminoknál
illative adminba adminokba
sublative adminra adminokra
allative adminhoz adminokhoz
elative adminból adminokból
delative adminról adminokról
ablative admintól adminoktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular
adminé adminoké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
adminéi adminokéi
Possessive forms of admin
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. adminom adminjaim
2nd person sing. adminod adminjaid
3rd person sing. adminja adminjai
1st person plural adminunk adminjaink
2nd person plural adminotok adminjaitok
3rd person plural adminjuk adminjaik

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Clipping of administrator, probably under international influence. First attested in 1991.[1]

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Noun

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admin m pers (female equivalent adminka)

  1. (technology) admin
    Synonym: administrator
    nadgorliwy admina hot-headed admin
    rozsądny admina reasonable admin
    dowolny adminany admin
    inny adminanother admin
    admin foruma forum admin
    admin serweraa server admin
    admin siecia network admin
    admin stronya webpage admin
    pisać/napisać do adminato write to admin
    zwracać się/zwrócić się do adminato turn/appeal to an admin
    zgłaszać się/zgłosić się do/na adminato report to an admin
    głosowanie na adminaan admin vote

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References

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  1. ^ Pęzik, Piotr, Przepiórkowski, A., Bańko, M., Górski, R., Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine]‎[1], Wydawnictwo PWN

Further reading

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  • admin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • admin in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • admin at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Portuguese

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Noun

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admin m or f by sense (plural admins)

  1. (computing) admin
    Synonym: administrador

Spanish

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Noun

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admin m or f by sense (plural admins)

  1. (Internet) admin (A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges)

Swedish

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admin c

  1. (computing, informal) an admin
    Jag tror du måste kontakta admin
    I think you'll have to contact the admin
    Är du admin?
    Are you an/the admin?

Usage notes

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Usually treated as a proper noun or adjective. Uninflected except for a plural admins.