administration

administration is a 14-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

14 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
5. noun. The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
6. noun. the act of meting out justice according to the law

   Synonyms: judicature

7. noun. the act of administering medication
8. noun. the act of governing; exercising authority

   "regulations for the governing of state prisons"

   "he had considerable experience of government"

   Synonyms: governance, governing, government

9. noun. a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)

   Synonyms: disposal

10. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: brass, establishment, governance, organisation, organization

11. noun. the tenure of a president

    "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"

    Synonyms: presidency

Synonyms

judicature, governance, governing, government, disposal, brass, establishment, organisation, organization, presidency

Common word forms

administrations

Words from these letters

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