administration

UK: 'administration', 'Administration': /ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃ^ən/

US: /ædˌmɪnəˈstreɪʃən/

US: (ad min′ə strā′shən)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ad•min•is•tra•tion /ædˌmɪnəˈstreɪʃən/   n. 

1. Government [uncountable] the management and control of a government or the like; the duties of an administrator.
2. Government [countable] a body of administrators or executive officials, esp. (often cap.) the officials of the executive branch of a government.
3. Government [countable] the period during which an administrator or body of administrators serves.
4. [uncountable] the act or process of administering.

ad•min•is•tra•tive /ædˈmɪnəˌstreɪtɪv, -strətɪv/  adj. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ad•min•is•tra•tion  (ad min′ə strā′shən), n. 

1. Government the management of any office, business, or organization;
   direction.
2. Government the function of a political state in exercising its governmental duties.
3. Government the duty or duties of an administrator in exercising the executive functions of the position.
4. Government the management by an administrator of such duties.
5. Government a body of administrators, esp. in government.
6. Government (often cap.) the executive branch of the U.S. government as headed by the President and in power during his or her term of office:
   The Administration has threatened to veto the new bill. The Reagan administration followed President Carter's.
7. Government the period of service of a governmental administrator or body of governmental administrators.
8. Government any group entrusted with executive or administrative powers:
   the administration of a college.
9. Law management of a decedent's estate by an executor or administrator, or of a trust estate by a trustee.
10. an act of dispensing, esp. formally:
    administration of the sacraments.
11. supervision of the taking of an oath or the like.
12. Medicine application, as of a salve or medicine.

• Latin administrātiōn- (stem of administrātiō) service. See administrate, -ion
• Middle English administracio(u)n 1275–1325

ad•min′is•tra′tion•al, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

administration / ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən/ noun

1. management of the affairs of an organization, such as a business or institution
2. the duties of an administrator
3. the body of people who administer an organization
4. the conduct of the affairs of government
5. term of office: often used of presidents, governments, etc
6. the executive branch of government along with the public service; the government as a whole
7. (often capital) the political executive, esp of the US; the government
8. the conduct or disposal of the estate of a deceased person
9. the management by a trustee of an estate subject to a trust
10. the administering of something, such as a sacrament, oath, or medical treatment
11. the thing that is administered

adˈministrative adjective

adˈministratively adverb