different between administer vs administration

English

Alternative forms

• administre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English admynistren, from Old French aminister, from Latin administrare (“to manage, execute”), from ad (“to”) + ministrare (“to attend, serve”), from minister (“servant”); see minister.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?/

Verb

administer (third-person singular simple present administers, present participle administering, simple past and past participle administered)

1. (transitive) To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
2. (transitive) To apportion out, distribute.
   • A fountain […] administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.
3. (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
4. (intransitive) To minister (to).

5. (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
6. To give, as an oath.
7. (medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.

Related terms

• administration
• administrative
• administrator

Translations

Further reading

• administer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• administer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• administre, mistrained, nitramides

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi?nis.ter/, [äd?m??n?s?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ad.mi?nis.ter/, [?d?mi?nist??r]

Noun

administer m (genitive administr?); second declension

1. assistant, helper, supporter
2. attendant
3. priest, minister

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• administer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• administer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Middle English administracioun, from Old French administration, from Latin administratio, from administrare; see administer; compare French administration.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?m?n??st?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

administration (usually uncountable, plural 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.

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

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

Synonyms

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

Related terms

• administer
• administrator
• administrative

Translations

References

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

French

Etymology

From Old French administration, from Latin administratio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis.t?a.sj??/

Noun

administration f (plural administrations)

1. management (administration; the process or practice of managing)

Derived terms

• conseil d'administration

Further reading

• “administration” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

administration (plural administrationes)

1. administration (act of administering)

Swedish

Noun

administration c

1. administration

Declension

Synonyms

• förvaltning