1 (also BrE informal admin) [U] the activities that are done in order to plan, organize and run a business, school or other institution:
Administration costs are passed on to the customer. * the day-to-day administration of a company * I work in the Sales Administration department.
2 [U] the process or act of organizing the way that sth is done:
the administration of justice
3 [C] the people who plan, organize and run a business, institution, etc:
university administrations
4 (often Administration) [C] the government of a country, especially the US:
This happened frequently during the Nixon Administration. * Successive administrations have failed to solve the country's economic problems.
5 [U] (formal) the act of giving a drug to sb:
the administration of antibiotics
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is administration a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, administration is tagged as noun.
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