administrationとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/
• 韻: -eɪʃən

名詞

administration (usually uncountable, 複数形 administrations)

1. (uncountable) 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.
2. (countable) A body that administers; the executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted 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.

   Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.

3. (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.

   the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

4. (uncountable, business) Management.
5. (uncountable, law, Britain) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

   The company went into voluntary administration last week.

同意語

• supervision, conduct, management, regulation, organization, governing

関連する語

• administer
• administrator
• administrative

参照

• administration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913