| administration | |
| 1. n. 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. | |
| 2. n. A body that administers; 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 | |
| Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies. | |
| 3. n. 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 | |
| 4. n. (business) Management. | |
| 5. n. (legal, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision. | |
| The company went into voluntary administration last week. | |
