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administrative

[ad-min-uh-strey-tiv, -struh-]

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adjective

pertaining to administration; executive: administrative ability.

Origin:
1725–35; < Latin administrātīvus. See administrate, -ive

Related forms

ad·min·is·tra·tive·ly, adverb

non·ad·min·is·tra·tive, adjective

non·ad·min·is·tra·tive·ly, adverb

pre·ad·min·is·tra·tive, adjective

sub·ad·min·is·tra·tive, adjective

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sub·ad·min·is·tra·tive·ly, adverb

un·ad·min·is·tra·tive, adjective

un·ad·min·is·tra·tive·ly, adverb

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Example Sentences

Graboski is on paid administrative leave while the district investigates the matter.

As higher education budgets come under pressure around the world, so the spotlight falls on administrative budgets.

He had previously said that only administrative machines at nuclear facilities had been infected.

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Graboski is on paid administrative leave while the district investigates the matter.

As higher education budgets come under pressure around the world, so the spotlight falls on administrative budgets.

He had previously said that only administrative machines at nuclear facilities had been infected.

No one is sure how the mummies got there or why they came to be on display at the site's administrative offices.

Anyone who has been tasked with exceedingly tedious administrative work probably has an intimate understanding of this well.

In both countries, it appears to have started for administrative reasons.

The earliest known administrative procedure for obtaining a patent has many similarities to the process today.

Beginning in the fall, those teachers will perform administrative duties or be sent home if they are deemed a threat to students.

But administrative bloat is more than a matter of numbers.

But dissatisfaction with administrative shortcomings-in essence, corruption-has been growing too.

It is quite remote and has been heavily pitted in the cemetery, in a temple or administrative area, and in a housing area.

It adds administrative costs to government and will do nothing to improve the climate/environment.

Of course there is an exception for that with administrative searches,” he said.

Fakahany, the firm's vice chairman and chief administrative officer.

It is quite possible that there are as many applicants for these administrative positions.

Some feared that it might be the beginning of the end of the administrative département.

Adjacent to that main building was a courtyard containing other buildings-possibly an administrative center.

There are administrative procedures to grant waivers to federal and state endangered species regulations.

According to a congressional source, the intern's supervisor has been put on administrative leave, as has the group's leader.

Each of the eight has a right to refuse the administrative hearing and request a court-martial instead.

However, this is more common when it includes some administrative function.

Both will require a combination of political clout, intellectual horsepower and administrative skill.

Other roads, totally illegal, crossed the administrative road from the south.

Supports a company-wide operational or administrative function.

Administrative fees in many retirement plans can be substantial, and they aren't always levied equitably.

What you can negotiate depends on the relationship of the chair position to the administrative structure of the university.

Standing between the two is an administrative machine corroded by apathy and corruption.

The cuts will come in the company's sales, product development and administrative divisions.

He acknowledged that it was not common for an entire administrative team to leave with the moderator.

Firms complain of high administrative costs and the low quality of applicants.

The attackers try to get domain administrative credentials and extract them from the network.

Coles said the mayor was waiting to see the administrative cuts.

Administrative hiccups seem likely to delay his contract for several weeks.

Within a short time, the attackers had administrative rights on the majority of the company's computers.

He has no administrative experience, but his advisers have worked out for him a comprehensive programme of government.

However, they are often free of the same administrative and curriculum requirements that regular public schools have.

Powerful princes control rival administrative fiefs.

Only log into the administrative account when needed.

So administrative work can be given to locally elected people.

It also has administrative tools that allow wiki entries to be viewed and sorted in different ways.

Administrative confusion, it suggested, was hampering a fight against flab that in any case lacked clear national leadership.

It also leads to electoral boundaries drawn purely to maximise political gain but making no geographical or administrative sense.

These currencies are simply administrative characteristics defining national economies.

But it will be the first test of its administrative competence in a country that is crying out for good leadership.

The ambition goes beyond poverty alleviation to the cleansing and improvement of a rotten administrative and social system.

In fact it may issue administrative orders backed up by law, forcing content to be deleted.

Many more of his officials have faced administrative penalties.

The last of the office lights are being turned off in the gathering dusk which marks the end of another day's administrative toil.

The bank also looks at a range of prices that are often set by administrative fiat rather than market forces.

But the price-fixing show is also an alarming symptom of the governing elite's belief in its total administrative power.

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World English Dictionary

administration (ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən)

—n
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.	chiefly (US) (often capital) the political executive, esp of the US; the government
8.	chiefly (US) a government board, agency, authority, etc
9.	property law
	a. the conduct or disposal of the estate of a deceased person
	b. the management by a trustee of an estate subject to a trust
10.	a. the administering of something, such as a sacrament, oath, or medical treatment
	b. the thing that is administered

ad'ministrative

—*adj*

ad'ministratively

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

administrative

1731, from L. administrativus, from pp. stem of administrare (see administer).

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