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administrator

[ad-min-uh-strey-ter]

noun

a person who manages or has a talent for managing.

Law. a person appointed by a court to take charge of the estate of a decedent, but not appointed in the decedent's will.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin administrātor, equivalent to administrā(re) (see administer) + -tor -tor

Related forms

ad·min·is·tra·tor·ship, noun

pre·ad·min·is·tra·tor, noun

sub·ad·min·is·tra·tor, noun

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administrator (ədˈmɪnɪˌstreɪtə)

—n
1.	a person who administers the affairs of an organization, official body, etc
2.	property law a person authorized to manage an estate, esp when the owner has died intestate or without having appointed executors
3.	a person who manages a computer system

adminis'tratrix

—*fem n*

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Word Origin & History

administrator

1510s, from L. administrator, agent noun from pp. stem of administrare (see administer). Estate sense is earliest. For ending, see -er.

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"Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever—whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman—a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge."

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