[ad-min-uh-strey-shuh
n] 
| 1. | the management of any office, business, or organization; direction. |
| 2. | the function of a political state in exercising its governmental duties. |
| 3. | the duty or duties of an administrator in exercising the executive functions of the position. |
| 4. | the management by an administrator of such duties. |
| 5. | a body of administrators, esp. in government. |
| 6. | (often initial capital letter) 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. | the period of service of a governmental administrator or body of governmental administrators. |
| 8. | 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. | application, as of a salve or medicine. |