- the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.
- the function of a political state in exercising its governmental duties.
- the duty or duties of an administrator in exercising the executive functions of the position.
- the management by an administrator of such duties.
- a body of administrators, especially in government.
- the executive branch of the U.S. government during a particular president's term of office: The Reagan administration followed President Carter's.The current administration has threatened to veto the new bill.
- the period of service of a governmental administrator or body of governmental administrators.
- any group entrusted with executive or administrative powers: the administration of a college.
- management of a decedent's estate by an executor or administrator or of a trust estate by a trustee.
- an act of dispensing, especially formally: administration of the sacraments.
- supervision of the taking of an oath or the like.
- application, as of a salve or medicine.
- management of the affairs of an organization, such as a business or institution
- the duties of an administrator
- the body of people who administer an organization
- the conduct of the affairs of government
- term of office: often used of presidents, governments, etc
- the executive branch of government along with the public service; the government as a whole
- the political executive, esp of the US; the government
- a government board, agency, authority, etc
- property law
- the conduct or disposal of the estate of a deceased person
- the management by a trustee of an estate subject to a trust
- the administering of something, such as a sacrament, oath, or medical treatment
- the thing that is administered
