administration

Definition

  • noun: the activities that relate to running a company, school, or other organization
  • noun: performance of executive duties
  • synonyms: conduct, direction, regulation

Examples

  • We studied U.S. foreign policy in/during the Reagan 'Administration'. [=during the time when Reagan was President]

  • The editorial criticizes the college's 'administration' for not taking a stand on the issue.

  • He works in hospital 'administration'. [=his work involves management of a hospital]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) converting the chemial into gas. and the gas will travel up that shaft and filter through the ventilation system that leads directly to parliament. Within seconds, the administration the most powerfull men in the world will be choking to death Blackwood must have some sort of transmitter (..)
    2009 Sherlock Holmes