Administration ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃn Extra Company Examples Noun Costs Passed

• administration costs are passed on to the customer.
• the day-to-day administration of a company
• i work in the sales administration department.
• under the trump administration

administration

1. the activities that are done in order to plan, organize and run a business, school or other institution
• SEE ALSO business administration
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/business-administration
• Administration costs are passed on to the customer.
• the day-to-day administration of a company
• I work in the Sales Administration department.

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• The college loses a lot of money through poor administration.
• A large part of his job involves routine administration.
• They are gradually doing away with centralized bureaucratic administration.
• Until now, she has been entirely responsible for the administration of the school.
2. the government of a country, especially the US
• under the Trump administration
• Successive administrations have failed to solve the country's economic problems.
• A senior administration official has decided to step down.

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• He was Secretary of Education in Bush's first administration.
• Her resignation is the second of a senior member of the administration within a month.
• The current administration will remain in office until elections in November.
• He continued as head of a caretaker administration.
• the handover of sovereignty by the British colonial administration
• the role of the UN in the setting-up of an interim administration
3. the management of public affairs
• SYNONYM government (2)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/government#government_sng_2
• The inhabitants of the island voted to remain under French administration.
4. the process or act of organizing the way that something is done
• the administration of justice
5. the people who plan, organize and run a business, an institution, etc.
• university administrations

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• The hospital administration can refuse patients' access to their own records.
• The prison administration is working hard to improve the service.
• He has been in dispute with the New Zealand cricket administration.
6. the act of giving a drug to somebody
• the administration of antibiotics
7. a situation in which the financial affairs of a business that cannot pay its debts are managed by an independent administrator
• COMPARE Chapter 11
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/chapter-11
• If it cannot find extra funds, the company will go into administration.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from Latin administratio(n-), from the verb administrare , from ad- ‘to’ + ministrare ‘wait upon’, from minister ‘servant’, from minus ‘less’.