ADMINISTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does administration mean? 

• ADMINISTRATION (noun)
  The noun ADMINISTRATION has 6 senses:

1. a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)

2. the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

3. the act of administering medication

4. the tenure of a president

5. the act of governing; exercising authority

6. the act of meting out justice according to the law

  Familiarity information: ADMINISTRATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMINISTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

administration; disposal

Hypernyms ("administration" is a kind of...):

direction; management (the act of managing something)

Domain category:

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administration"):

polity (shrewd or crafty management of public affairs)

running (the act of administering or being in charge of something)

organisation; organization (the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business)

line management (administration of the activities contributing directly to an organization's output)

conducting (the way of administering a business)

Derivation:

administer (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization

Context example:

he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment

Hypernyms ("administration" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (parts of "administration"):

hierarchy; pecking order; power structure (the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body)

Meronyms (members of "administration"):

advisory board; planning board (a board appointed to advise the chief administrator)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administration"):

Curia ((Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church)

top brass (the most important persons in a governing body)

executive (persons who administer the law)

bench; judiciary (persons who administer justice)

county council (the elected governing body of a county)

government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

management (those in charge of running a business)

Holonyms ("administration" is a part of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Derivation:

administer (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of administering medication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

administration; giving medication

Hypernyms ("administration" is a kind of...):

medication (the act of treating with medicines or remedies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administration"):

drugging; sedation (the administration of a sedative agent or drug)

drip feed (the administration of a solution (blood or saline or plasma etc.) one drop at a time)

Derivation:

administer (give or apply (medications))

Sense 4

Meaning:

The tenure of a president

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

administration; presidency; presidential term

Context example:

things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration

Hypernyms ("administration" is a kind of...):

incumbency; tenure; term of office (the term during which some position is held)

Derivation:

administer (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The act of governing; exercising authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity

Context example:

he had considerable experience of government

Hypernyms ("administration" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Domain member category:

federal (characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities)

progressive; reform-minded; reformist (favoring or promoting reform (often by government action))

unitary (characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority)

allegiant (steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government))

minimalist (advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics))

anarchy; lawlessness (a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government))

office; power ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power)

zero-coupon bond; zero coupon bond (a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security)

bounty; premium (payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military)

event planner (someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials))

manifesto; pronunciamento (a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government))

paternalism (the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good)

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)

government ((government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed)

protest march (occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license)

destabilisation; destabilization (the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy))

devolution; devolvement (the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government))

price-fixing (control (by agreement among producers or by government) of the price of a commodity in interstate commerce)

squandermania (prodigious squandering (usually by a government))

land reform (a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action))

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administration"):

misgovernment; misrule (government that is inefficient or dishonest)

lawmaking; legislating; legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)

trust busting ((law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws))

Sense 6

Meaning:

The act of meting out justice according to the law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

administration; judicature

Hypernyms ("administration" is a kind of...):

justice (judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments)

 Context examples 

Upon intradermal administration of BPX-201, these DCs accumulate in local draining lymph nodes.

(Adenovector-transduced AP1903-inducible MyD88/CD40-expressing Autologous PSMA-specific Prostate Cancer Vaccine BPX-201, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of tachycardia that is usually terminated by the administration of adenosine.

(Adenosine-Sensitive Ventricular Tachycardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intratumoral injection of INXN-3001 and subsequent oral administration of activator ligand, INXN-1001 is able to induce expression of IL-12 in INXN-3001.

(Adenoviral Transduced hIL-12-expressing Autologous Dendritic Cells INXN-3001 Plus Activator Ligand INXN-1001, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, this vaccine may induce both humoral and cellular immune responses against tumor cells expressing the CEA antigen, thereby resulting in the immune-mediated inhibition of tumor cell proliferation and tumor cell death.

(Adenoviral Vector Ad5-CEA(6D) Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intramuscular administration, the Ad5-hGCC-PADRE vaccine expresses hGCC, which may induce both humoral and cellular immune responses against tumor cells expressing the hGCC antigen.

(Adenovirus 5-Human Guanylyl Cyclase C-PADRE Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, adalimumab binds to TNF-alpha, thereby preventing its binding to the p55 and p75 TNF cell surface receptors and inhibiting TNF-mediated immune responses.

(Adalimumab, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, Melan-A/MAGE-3.DP4 peptide vaccine may stimulate the immune system to mount a cytotoxic T-cell (CTL) response against tumor cells expressing Melan-A and MAGE-3, resulting in tumor cell lysis.

(Melan-A/MAGE-3.DP4 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration into the peritumoral region after tumor resection, adenoviral vector encoding HSV thymidine kinase is transduced into tumor cells, and HSV-tk is expressed.

(Ad-hCMV-TK, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, Ad-hCMV-Flt3L is transduced into tumor cells and Flt3L is expressed.

(Ad-hCMV-Flt3L, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, the MELITAC 12.1 peptide vaccine may stimulate the host immune system to mount a cytotoxic T-cell response against tumor cells expressing the melanoma peptide antigens, resulting in tumor cell lysis.

(MELITAC 12.1 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)