Administrable(a.) Capable of being administered; as, an administrable law.
Administrant(a.) Executive; acting; managing affairs.
Administrant(n.) One who administers.
Administrate(v. t.) To administer.
Administration(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.
Administration(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.
Administration(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.
Administration(n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
Administration(n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
Administrative(a.) Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.
Administrator(n.) One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
Administrator(n.) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.
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