26984 words

administration

13 definitions • 15 examples
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Examples:

Teachers complain that more of their time is taken up with administration than with teaching.
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the people in an organization who manage its business and operations:

Examples:

The decision to cancel the trip was made by the school administration.
3
a period of government, or the people who are in government:

Examples:

the Obama administration/the last Republican administration
4
the act of giving someone something:

Examples:

There are strict controls on the administration of drugs.
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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):

Examples:

go into administration The company has gone into administration, in order for money to be returned to creditors.
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Examples:

[ U ] He’s studying business administration.
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An administration in the US is the period when a President is in office:

Examples:

[ C ] The Clinton administration has been full of surprises.
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An administration is also all of the officials working in a government's executivebranch .
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Examples:

Administration of the scheme is costly in terms of time.
She studied business administration at New York University.
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the people who manage and control a large organization:

Examples:

Some foreign postal administrations, including Britain's and France's, have embraced the concept.
Will medical school administrations and faculty be happy to adopt a large increase in class size?
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the government of the United States or of some other countries:

Examples:

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
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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:

Examples:

The company has gone into administration, which was required if any money was to be returned to creditors.
His business empire continues to trade and is not in administration.

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