administer /əd-minˈi-stər/

1. To govern
2. To manage or control as a manager, steward, substitute or executor
3. To dispense (justice or rites)
4. To supervise the swearing of (an oath)
5. To give (medicine or treatment)

To minister

adminˈistrable adjective

adminˈistrant adjective and noun

adminˈistrate transitive verb

To administer

administrāˈtion (informal short form adˈmin) noun

1. The act of administering
2. Management
3. The organization of a business
4. The people whose job it is to carry out such organization
5. Dispensation of sacraments
6. The government
7. The state of being subject to an administrative order

adminˈistrative adjective

Concerned with administration

adminˈistratively adverb

adminˈistrātor noun

1. A person who manages or directs
2. The person to whom is committed, under a commission entitled letters of administration, the administration or distribution of the personal estate of a deceased person, in default of an executor
3. Someone empowered to act for a person legally incapable of acting for themselves (Scots law)

adminˈistrātorship noun

adminˈistrātrix noun

A female administrator

administrative order noun

A court order allowing an administrator to freeze the debts of a company in financial difficulties

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