An administrator is a person whose job involves helping to organize and supervise the way that an organization or institution functions.
Synonyms: manager, head, official, director More Synonyms of administrator
administrator in British English
(ədˈmɪnɪˌstreɪtə)
noun
1.
a person who administers the affairs of an organization, official body, etc
2. property law
a person authorized to manage an estate, esp when the owner has died intestate or without having appointed executors
3.
a person who manages a computer system
Derived forms
administratrix (adˌminisˈtratrix)
feminine noun
administrator in American English
(ædˈmɪnɪsˌtreɪtər; ədˈmɪnɪsˌtreɪtər)
noun
1.
a person who administers
2.
an executive or official of a business, institution, etc.
3. Law
a person appointed by a court to settle an estate
see also executor
COBUILD Collocations
administrator
school administrator
Examples of 'administrator' in a sentence
administrator
The school administrator would often scoff four bags of crisps driving home from work.
The Sun (2013)
The administrators will propose company voluntary arrangements to the creditors that will include reduced rents.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The princes maintained few paid officials rewarding their administrators with land grants instead.
Stearns, Peter N. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
The school administrator told me a plane had hit the building.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
His life as a teacher and administrator inhibited his output.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This allows me to clarify requests from both ministry perspectives as well as engaging our business administrator concerns.
Christianity Today (2000)
As a coach and administrator, he has been less successful.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The club's joint administrators said that potential purchasers with whom they had signed an exclusivity agreement have yet to satisfy the terms of that agreement.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Not many Russian athletes, coaches or administrators will attach much importance to this point.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He has served the unpaid code for 58 years as a boxer, coach and administrator.
The Sun (2013)
He has served as a coach, team administrator, consultant and board member.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The administrator assured staff, residents, landlords and suppliers that the administration of the parent company would not directly affect them.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
English administrators superimposed a system of commercial regulation on a number of different, often unstable American colonies and called it an empire.
Divine, Robert A. (editor) & Breen, T. H & Frederickson, George M & Williams, R. Hal America Past and Present (1995)
In command, he proved a skilled tactician with a clear appreciation of intelligence and its uses, a shrewd negotiator and an able administrator.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Word lists with
administrator
Property law terms
In other languages
administrator
British English: administrator NOUN
An administrator is a person whose job involves helping to organize and supervise the way that an organization or institution functions.
American English: administrator
Brazilian Portuguese: administrador
Chinese: 行政人员
European Spanish: administrador
French: administrateur
German: Verwalter
Italian: amministratore
Japanese: 経営者
Korean: 행정관
European Portuguese: administrador
Latin American Spanish: administrador
Chinese translation of 'administrator'
administrator
(ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtəʳ)
n(c)
行政人员(員) (xíngzhèng rényuán) (名, míng)
(noun)
Definition
a person who administers an organization or estate
He worked for 34 years as an administrator with the company.
Synonyms
manager
a retired bank manager
head
heads of government from more than 100 countries
official
a senior UN official
director
He is the director of the unit.
officer
a local education authority officer
executive
a senior bank executive
minister
He concluded a deal with the Danish minister in Washington.
boss (informal)
He cannot stand his boss.
agent
governor
the governor of the province in the late 1970s
controller
supervisor
a full-time job as a supervisor at a factory
bureaucrat
The economy is still controlled by bureaucrats.
superintendent
superintendent of the bank's East African branches
gaffer (informal, mainly British)
The gaffer told me I would be playing on Saturday.
organizer
the organizers of the event
mandarin
functionary
overseer
Officials agreed to appoint a federal overseer to run the agency's daily business.
Additional synonyms
in the sense of boss
Definition
a person in charge of or employing others
He cannot stand his boss.
Synonyms
manager,
head,
leader,
director,
chief,
executive,
owner,
master,
governor (informal),
employer,
administrator,
supervisor,
superintendent,
gaffer (informal, British),
or woman or person">foreman or woman or person,
overseer,
kingpin,
big cheese (old-fashioned, slang),
numero uno (informal),
Mister Big (slang, US),
sherang (Australian, New Zealand)
in the sense of bureaucrat
Definition
an official in a bureaucracy
The economy is still controlled by bureaucrats.
Synonyms
official,
minister,
officer,
administrator,
civil servant,
public servant,
functionary,
apparatchik,
office-holder,
mandarin
in the sense of director
Definition
a member of the governing board of a business, trust, etc.