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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Administration \Ad*min`is*tra"tion\ (?; 277), n. [OE.
administracioun L. administratio: cf F. administration.]
1. 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.
His financial administration was of a piece with his
military administration. --Macaulay.
2. 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.
A mild and popular administration. --Macaulay.
The administration has been opposed in parliament.
--Johnson.
3. 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
administration
n 1: a method of tending to (especially business) matters [syn: {disposal}]
2: the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up
a governing body and who administer something "he claims
that the present administration is corrupt"; "the
governance of an association is responsible to its
members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the
establishment" [syn: {governance}, {establishment}, {brass},
{organization}, {organisation}]
3: the act of administering medication [syn: {giving medication}]
4: the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the
Eisenhower administration" [syn: {presidency}, {presidential
term}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to
receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of
straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
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