Usually means: Management of organizational operations and functions.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word administration:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. administration: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. administration, the administration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. administration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. administration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. administration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Administration, Administration, administration, administration, administration: Wordnik
  7. administration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. administration: Wiktionary
  9. administration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. administration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. administration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. administration: Dictionary.com
  13. administration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Administration (British football), Administration (business), Administration (disambiguation), Administration (government), Administration (insolvency), Administration (law), Administration (probate law), Administration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Administration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. administration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. administration: Rhymezone
  18. administration, administration (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. administration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. administration: Free Dictionary
  21. administration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. administration: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. administration: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. administration: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Administration (business), administration: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. administration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Administration: UK Medical Acronyms
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Administration: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  4. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  5. administration: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. administration: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. administration: Political
  2. ADMINISTRATION, ADMINISTRATION, ADMINISTRATION: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. administration: Genealogy Glossary
  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. administration: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See administrations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) 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.
noun:  (countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted 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.
noun:  (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
noun:  (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
noun:  (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
noun:  (uncountable, business) Management.
noun:  (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

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