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Administrator: Definition and part of speech

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Administrator

  1. 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.
  2. n. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Administrative: Definition and part of speech

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Administrative

  1. a. Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Administration: Definition and part of speech

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Administration

  1. n. The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. n. The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Administer: Definition and part of speech

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Administer

  1. n. Administrator.
  2. v. t. To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
  3. v. t. To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
  4. v. t. To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
  5. v. t. To tender, as an oath.
  6. v. t. To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
  7. v. i. To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
  8. v. i. To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.