OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8396

administration

/ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
administración
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.
[…] the fact that the propertied classes are no longer the best educated, and the fact that the large number of people who owe their position solely to their general education do n…
administración
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.
The trove of documents from half a dozen federal agencies in recent days are a direct result of a blockbuster Supreme Court decision last month that allowed the administration to d…
administración
The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
oral administration of insulin
the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament
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