administration

administration has 11 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 14.

Definitions

• 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; management.
• n.. The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted 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.
• n.. The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
• n.. The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
• n.. The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
• n.. the act of meting out justice according to the law
• n.. the act of administering medication
• n.. the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"
• n.. a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
• n.. the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
• n.. the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"