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单词 administration
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administrationnoun

uk/ədˌmɪn.ɪˈstreɪ.ʃən/us/ədˌmɪn.əˈstreɪ.ʃən/

administration noun (MANAGING)

C1 informal admin, uk/ˈæd.mɪn/us[ U ] the arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan or organization:

Teachers complain that more of their time is taken up with administration than with teaching.
She has little experience in admin (= in organizing a business, etc.).

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  • Reputable charities spend the lion's share of donations on aid and a tiny fraction on administration.
  • Eastern Slavonia is to revert to Croatian government rule next year after a transitional period under U.N. administration.
  • Keeping noise levels low is the bane of airport administration.
  • The new administration is still in the shakedown period.
  • Hard-liners are expected to be purged from the administration.

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Managing and organizing

  • act
  • administer
  • bureaucracy
  • bureaucratic
  • campaign
  • central
  • head sth up
  • in hand idiom
  • kaizen
  • manage
  • management
  • mind the store idiom
  • run the show idiom
  • running
  • shakedown
  • square
  • square sth/sb away
  • stage
  • stage-manage
  • stewardship

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administration noun (MANAGEMENT)

C2 [ C ] the people in an organization who manage its business and operations:

The decision to cancel the trip was made by the school administration.

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Bosses & managers

  • boss
  • captain of industry
  • CEO
  • chief executive
  • chief executive officer
  • comptroller
  • founder
  • general
  • Goliath
  • governance
  • governor
  • guvnor
  • magnate
  • manageress
  • managing director
  • middle management
  • overseer
  • president
  • top brass
  • vice president

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administration noun (GOVERNMENT)

C2 [ C ] a period of government, or the people who are in government:

the Obama administration/the last Republican administration

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Ruling & governing

  • absolute
  • affairs of state
  • ascend
  • ascend the throne idiom
  • Comintern
  • corridor
  • deep state
  • government-owned
  • government-sponsored
  • governmental
  • hung parliament
  • incumbency
  • officially
  • oppressive
  • reign
  • repress
  • repression
  • repressive
  • sovereignty
  • statecraft

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administration noun (GIVING)

[ U ] the act of giving someone something:

There are strict controls on the administration of drugs.

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Giving, providing and supplying

  • accommodate
  • accord
  • administer
  • assignment
  • award
  • award-winning
  • deliver
  • hand sth around
  • hand sth back
  • hand sth in
  • hand sth out
  • hand sth over
  • invest
  • lay
  • spare
  • step
  • step forward
  • supplier
  • supply
  • supply chain

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administration noun (BUSINESS CLOSING)

[ U ] UK the process that takes place when a company cannot pay its debts and is allowed to make changes to its organization to try to avoid going into liquidation (= when a business is closed and the things it owns are sold):

The company has gone into administration, in order for money to be returned to creditors.

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Success & failure in business

  • axe
  • bankrupt
  • bankruptcy
  • branch
  • branch out
  • buy into sth
  • collapse
  • establish
  • fold
  • foreclose
  • liquidate
  • liquidator
  • locate
  • moribund
  • official receiver
  • organic growth
  • prosper
  • receivership
  • shut (sth) down
  • spin

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