administration
/ədˌmɪn.əˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/ noun B1- The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
- The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain. · Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.
- The country's government under the rule of a particular leader. · The Obama administration· The Duterte administration
- A body that administers; a body of administrators.
- The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation. · the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament· oral administration of insulin
- Management.
Plural administrations
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The Standard commented upon the fact that lawless outrages of the sort usually occurred under a Liberal Administration.
The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals.
When my uncle became foreign minister in this administration he gave me several missions of trust, and as I always brought them to a successful conclusion, he came at last to have the utmost confidence in my ability and tact.
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