Administration
Governing body currently
Administration covers the work of managing organizations—the planning, coordination, and oversight that keeps institutions running.
It also names the people who do this work: the hospital administration, the university's administration.
In American politics, an administration is a president's term and team: the Biden administration, the Obama administration.
To administer medicine or tests is to give them, making administration the act of giving: the administration of vaccines.
The word often carries bureaucratic connotations—paperwork, procedures, institutional machinery.
Authority over a state
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
- regimeSystem of governance
presidency · management · policy · officials · legislature · office · authority · regulatory
Ability to direct others
- directorOne who leads
- supervisorOne who directs workers
- managerOne who directs others
- executiveSenior organizational leader
coordination · operations · oversight · delegation · organizational · hierarchy · CEO · decision-making
Chief school administrator
- deanSenior academic administrator
- superintendentChief administrative official
- registrarKeeper of official records
- provostSenior academic administrator
headmaster · enrollment · admissions · faculty · curriculum · bursar · school · university
Measured medicine amount
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
- injectionSyringe-delivered dose
- oralOf the mouth
- intravenousInto the vein
dispensing · nurse · patient · timing · route · prescription · delivery · topical
Appointed estate manager
- probateWill validation proceedings
- estateProperty and grounds
- trusteeOne managing another's assets
- fiduciaryAgent bound by loyalty
beneficiary · will · intestate · settlement · distribution · guardian · conservator · assets
government
Authority over a state
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
- executiveSenior organizational leader
- cabinetEnclosed storage furniture
regime · presidency · management · policy · officials · legislature · office · authority · regulatory · federal
leadership
Ability to direct others
- directorOne who leads
- supervisorOne who directs workers
- managerOne who directs others
executive · coordination · operations · oversight · delegation · organizational · hierarchy · CEO · decision-making · corporate
principal
Chief school administrator
- deanSenior academic administrator
- superintendentChief administrative official
- registrarKeeper of official records
provost · headmaster · enrollment · admissions · faculty · curriculum · bursar · school · university · academic
dosage
Measured medicine amount
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
- injectionSyringe-delivered dose
- oralOf the mouth
intravenous · dispensing · nurse · patient · timing · route · prescription · delivery · topical · sublingual
executor
Appointed estate manager
fiduciary · beneficiary · will · intestate · settlement · distribution · guardian · conservator · assets · inheritance
Administrationlegislature
Lawmaking governmental branch
Congress · legislative branch · opposition · opposition party · judiciary
Administrationlabor
Strenuous effort; also childbirth
workers · rank and file · workforce · employees · union
Administrationchaos
Complete disorder and confusion
anarchy · disorganization · disorder · mismanagement · neglect
- university administrationThose governing a college
- administrative buildingsFacilities for organizational operations
- administrative policiesOfficial organizational operating rules
- administrative assistantOffice support worker
- military administrationArmed forces organizational oversight
- school administrationThose governing educational institutions
administrating, administrative, administratively, administrations, maladministration