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administer

[ad-min-uh-ster]

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verb (used with object)

to manage (affairs, a government, etc.); have executive charge of: to administer the law.

to bring into use or operation: to administer justice; to administer last rites.

to make application of; give: to administer medicine.

to supervise the formal taking of (an oath or the like).

Law. to manage or dispose of, as a decedent's estate by an executor or administrator or a trust estate by a trustee.

verb (used without object)

to contribute assistance; bring aid or supplies (usually followed by to): to administer to the poor.

to perform the duties of an administrator: She administers quite effectively.

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an allegation made by a party to a legal suit, in support of his or her claim or defense; a defendant's answer to a legal declaration or charge

property or money given as surety that a person released from custody will return at an appointed time

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Origin:
1325–75; < Latin administrāre to assist, carry out, manage the affairs of (see ad-, minister); replacing Middle English amynistre (with a-⁵) < Middle French aministrer

Related forms

ad·min·is·trant

[ad-min-uh-struhnt] , noun

non·ad·min·is·trant, adjective

self-ad·min·is·tered, adjective

self-ad·min·is·ter·ing, adjective

un·ad·min·is·tered, adjective

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well-ad·min·is·tered, adjective

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Synonyms
1. conduct, control, execute; direct, superintend, supervise, oversee. See rule. 2. distribute, supply, furnish.

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The participant was told to read test questions, and to administer a shock when the learner gave the wrong answer.

Department is in natural science division, and helps administer a neuroscience concentration.

As a way to administer some nasty disinflationary medicine the doctrine worked.

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The participant was told to read test questions, and to administer a shock when the learner gave the wrong answer.

Department is in natural science division, and helps administer a neuroscience concentration.

As a way to administer some nasty disinflationary medicine the doctrine worked.

To feed, black widows puncture their insect prey with their fangs and administer digestive enzymes to the corpses.

After two years, researchers compared the results of the rural home visits to urban clinics that only administer drugs.

They begin to actively administer some portions of the contested area.

Oliver said two doctors and two nurses who were aboard tried to administer oxygen from a second tank, which was also empty.

Efforts are underway to simplify the complex, byzantine system we've created to administer financial aid, and it's about time.

Often, war has destroyed the state: there is no one to collect taxes, administer justice or carry out government policy.

Quotas are easy to administer and regulate but are based on population estimates that are often wrong.

Issuing permits to suppliers is easier to administer because no smokestacks need to be monitored.

Otero says a private foundation has been set up near the university to develop applications and to administer licensing.

They are trained how to administer intravenous lines and advanced airway treatment.

Faculty development offices can often help you design these evaluations and then administer them for you.

The doctors cannot agree on a diagnosis, let alone administer an antidote with confidence.

Their next exam will be in about a month, when staff will be able to confirm the cubs' genders and administer vaccinations.

On top of that, capital punishment is extremely costly to administer and has never been shown to deter criminal behavior.

The only cure is to administer a vaccine up to a week after contracting the illness.

Composed of molecules of fatty acids, liposomes promised a way to administer.

We are searching for a self-starter to help administer the accounts receivable function in a dynamic, collegial work environment.

Second, carbon taxes would be levied locally and so impossible to properly administer on a global scale.

Organic producers cannot take that approach and must administer needed medication.

He is, in theory an administrator of a budget that he screwed up in a public fashion and therefore unfit to administer his budget.

There is no officer of the guard to administer the coup de grâce with his pistol.

The winner of the game could administer a blast of white noise to the loser.

Most parents are not qualified to teach their own kids, any more than they are qualified to administer emergency medical care.

At the end of a government's term, a caretaker government takes office to administer a general election.

These are easy to administer or allow for self testing online.

Are easy to administer but require lab processing to ensure accuracy.

Burton had feared, the procedure proved painful and difficult to administer.

She will oversee a task force to administer the program.

In cases where the patient was not able on his own to administer the lethal dose, a doctor or nurse would be permitted to do so.

Vaccines are not evil neither are those who administer them.

Yang was not a psychotherapist, nor was he licensed to administer electroshock.

As the plan is to administer the anaesthetic while the patient sleeps, it is no wonder that failure attends the effort.

For example, in nursing, you have to know more than how to administer medications.

The people who administer the system, the heirs of those who devised it, stand to gain enormously from its perpetuation.

If it's an allergic reaction, a vet can also administer a steroid shot for immediate relief.

We'll need a central place to administer our social networks and privacy settings.

Administer a survey by anonymous questionnaire, with all the consistency controls you like.

The original plan for the trial was to administer different doses to five groups of patients.

It also means you cannot find a position from which to administer any system of law.

It used to be possible to administer a primal face-to-face insult by pretending not to know someone.

If the answer is positive, you can offer to help administer it.

Paterson signed legislation this week that will let pharmacists administer flu and pneumonia shots, a change expected to.

One popular method is to insert long, thin, flexible tubes called catheters into the body and administer treatment through them.

Early tests set the stage for health workers to administer the vaccine as an aerosol instead of an.

Voter-registration data is supposed to be used primarily to administer elections.

Such bodies are still held sacred as revered ancestors by the ancient clans who administer the cemeteries.

Tiny devices may soon perform surgery, administer drugs and help diagnose disease.

Today's technology makes it easier than ever to administer these contests, but the central idea behind them is centuries-old.

They learn to use ultrasound to guide catheters through veins to administer medications or fluids.

For example, subjects were asked if they'd administer harmless but painful electric shocks to another person.

He had a difficult office to administer ever since he was appointed, owing largely.

There are signs that mayors who administer the programme well get a reward at the polls while those who do not suffer.

Simple heat pain is but one relatively minor type of pain that is used because it is easy to administer and measure.

And really, they're hiring you to administer something, not teach.

Before then, drug treatments for depression were difficult to administer and sometimes dangerous.

The patients then administer the medication themselves.

There are two ways to administer this chemical: powdered and damp.

Give states aid to properly administer unemployment compensationmore.

The government then set up a fund to administer receipts from the higher.

Then it becomes our responsibility to administer the rest of it.

But professors who administer nothing but multiple-choice tests are shortchanging their students.

They can, however, survive antibiotics at higher dosages than are safe to administer in humans.

The treatment is easy to administer and has no known side effects.

So for the time being, he believes, it is the government that is best equipped to administer justice.

Let the states administer the programs to save money and also to provide adequate services to the recipients.

Thistle had previously received patents on a catheter device to administer the compound and to remove the dissolved material.

Unqualified people do not get interviewed to administer programs.

Also unknown is whether the vaccine is safe to administer to people whose immune systems are already weakened.

Ultimately the govt underwrites the system, but does not administer and run the system.

But a new study finds that there is an anesthetic that is not only effective but also easy to administer and safe.

Business schools taught students how to administer large organizations bureaucratically.

Now, however, a decision by the agency created to administer the housing law presents a new complication.

To be able to administer effectively you do need measurement.

They may take a day off but it is to have a sub administer a test so they can get caught up on grading/ planning prep/ etc.

Treatments to remove these metals are inexpensive and easy to administer.

Professors need a standard evaluation that they can administer which can test the studen's.

It makes me happy to see the state administer justice in a fair and procedurally sound fashion.

Require those schools to administer the same test to those student shortly before receiving the bachelor's degree.

The only problem it might not be as easy to administer.

But some recent research has shown that, because of failures to administer the appropriate dosage of.

The university would gladly administer any grants they obtain.

The money necessary to fill the pot and administer the system could be raised in either of two ways.

It would be simple, easy to administer and efficient.

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World English Dictionary

administer (ədˈmɪnɪstə)

—vb (when intr, foll by to)
1.	(also intr) to direct or control (the affairs of a business, government, etc)
2.	to put into execution; dispense: administer justice
3.	to give or apply (medicine, assistance, etc) as a remedy or relief
4.	to apply formally; perform: to administer extreme unction
5.	to supervise or impose the taking of (an oath, etc)
6.	to manage or distribute (an estate, property, etc)

[C14: amynistre, via Old French from Latin administrare, from ad- to + ministrāre to minister]

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Word Origin & History

administer

late 14c., "to manage as a steward," from O.Fr. aministrer, from L. administrare "serve, carry out, manage," from ad- "to" + ministrare "serve" (see minister). Used of medicine, etc., "to give," from 1540s.

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