These are word's definitions related to administration. Click on any word to go to its word's detail page. Or, go to the definition of administration.
0 the arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan or organization:
Teachers complain that more of their time is taken up with administration than with teaching.
She has little experience in admin (= in organizing a business, etc.).
1 the people in an organization who manage its business and operations:
2 a period of government, or the people who are in government:
the Obama administration/the last Republican administration
3 the act of giving someone something:
4 the process that takes place when a company cannot pay its debts and is allowed to make changes to its organization to try to avoid going into liquidation (= when a business is closed and the things it owns are sold):
5 the management or control of an organization:
6 the activity of managing or dealing with a business activity:
7 → admin
8 the people who manage and control a large organization:
9 the government of the United States or of some other countries:
It seems like there's an effort to centralize authority in Washington more than there has been in prior administrations.
the Obama/Bush/Nixon Administration
10 a situation in which an independent administrator takes control of a company that cannot pay its debts in order to try to improve the company's financial situation and keep it operating:
