Definition of "administration" in English

noun

1. (uncountable) 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. (countable, government, politics) 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.

3. (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.

   • The Obama administration
   • The Duterte administration

4. (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.

5. (uncountable) 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

6. (uncountable, business) Management.

7. (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

   • The company went into voluntary administration last week.