administration
English
/ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/
noun
Definitions
- (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) 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.
- (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
- (uncountable) Management.
- (uncountable) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English administracioun derived from Old French administration derived from Latin administratio.
Origin
Latin
administratio
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- administrational English
- antiadministration English
- coadministration English
- maladministration English
- misadministration English
- nonadministration English
- overadministration English
- postadministration English
- preadministration English
- proadministration English
- readministration English
- administratio Latin
- administrātiō Latin
- adminisztráció Hungarian
- administration French
- administrasjon Norwegian Bokmål
- administrasjon Norwegian Nynorsk
- administracioun Middle English
- administration Old French
- administrație Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- administracie Middle Dutch
- administresen Tok Pisin
- aidministraicion Bourguignon