Administration : (noun)
1: a method of tending to (especially business) matters [syn: disposal]
2: the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up
a body for the purpose of administering 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, governing body, 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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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ADMINISTRATION, trusts. The management of the estate of an intestate, a
minor, a lunatic, an habitual drunkard, or other person who is incapable of
managing his own affairs, entrusted to an administrator or other trustee by
authority of law. In a more confined sense, and in which it will be used in
this article,Administration : is the management of an intestate's estate, or
of the estate of a testator who, at the time administration was granted, had
no executor.
2. Administration is granted by a public officer duly authorized to
delegate the trust; he is sometimes called surrogate, judge of probate,
register of wills and for granting letters of administration. It is to be
granted to such persons as the statutory provisions of the several states
direct. In general the right of administration belongs to him who" has the
right to the venue of the personalty: as if A make his will, and appoint B
his executor, who dies intestate, and C is the legatee of the residue of A's
estate, C has the right of administration cum testamento annexo. 2 Strange,
956; 12 Mod. 437, 306; 1 Jones, 225; 1 Croke. 201; 2 Leo. 55; 1 Vent. 217.
3. There are several kinds of administrations, besides the usual kind
which gives to the administrator the management of all the personal estate
of the deceased for an unlimited time. Administration durante minore oetate,
administration durante absentia, administration pendente lite,
administration de bonis non, administration cum testamento annexo.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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ADMINISTRATION, government. The management of the affairs of the government;
this word is also applied to the persons entrusted with the management of
the public affairs.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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