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English

Alternative forms

• administratour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administr?tor (literally “he that is near to attend”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?e?t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?st?e?t?/

Noun

administrator (plural administrators)

1. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager
2. (law) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
3. (computing) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network

Synonyms

• (one who administers affairs): chief, head, head man, controller, comptroller, foreman, organizer, overseer, superintendent, supervisor
• admin

Derived terms

• co-administrator

Related terms

• administer
• administration
• administrative

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t.mi.ni?stra?.t?r/, /??t.mi.n?s?tra?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?nis?tra?tor
• Rhymes: -a?t?r

Noun

administrator m (plural administratoren)

1. administrator, manager (person in an administrative capacity)
2. (Roman Catholicism) ecclesiastical administrator, a steward of a bishop

Related terms

• administrateur
• administratie
• administratief
• administreren

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch administrator (“administrator”), from Latin administrator (“administrator”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at?min?strat?r/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?nis?tra?tor

Noun

administrator (first-person possessive administratorku, second-person possessive administratormu, third-person possessive administratornya)

1. (government, management) administrator.

Alternative forms

• administratur (nonstandard)

Related terms

Further reading

• “administrator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From administr? (“attend upon, assist”), from ad- (“to”) +? ministr? (“attend, manage”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

administr?tor m (genitive administr?t?ris); third declension

1. manager, conductor, administrator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• administr?t?rius

Related terms

• administer
• administr?ti?
• administr?t?vus
• administr?

Descendants

• Catalan: administrador
• English: administrator
• Hungarian: adminisztrátor
• Portuguese: administrador
• Russian: ?????????????? m (administrátor)
• Spanish: administrador

References

• administrator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• administrator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• administrator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

administrator m

1. vocative singular form of administrators

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

administrator m (definite singular administratoren, indefinite plural administratorer, definite plural administratorene)

1. an administrator

References

• “administrator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

administrator m (definite singular administratoren, indefinite plural administratorar, definite plural administratorane)

1. an administrator

References

• “administrator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.m?i.?i?stra.t?r/

Noun

administrator m pers (feminine administratorka)

1. administrator

Declension

Further reading

• administrator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French administrateur, Latin administr?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ad.mi.nis.tra?tor/

Noun

administrator m (plural administratori, feminine equivalent administratoare)

1. administrator

Declension

Synonyms

• intendent

Derived terms

• administrator delegat

Related terms

• administra
• administrabil
• administrare
• administrat
• administrativ
• administra?ie

References

• administrator in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /admin?stra?tor/
• Hyphenation: ad?mi?ni?stra?tor

Noun

adminìstr?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????????)

1. administrator

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????(?)/
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) +? -er.

Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
   • 1863, Jean Ingelow, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire,

     Pull, if ye never pull?d before;

     Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.

2. (mining) A crowbar.

References

Etymology 2

From ring (“to surround”) +? -er.

Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
2. (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
3. A ringer T-shirt.
   • 2007, Descant (issue 138, page 28)

     […] shabby baseball caps, faded and worn-out T-shirts, ringers and polos with artificially aged hems […]

   • 2011, Buck Peden, Baseball, Golf, Wars, Women & Puppies: An Autobiography (page 278)

     The shirts were light blue heather ringers with royal blue trim on the necks and sleeves.

See also

• ringer T-shirt

Etymology 3

Probably from ring the changes.

Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. (sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.

   Synonym: hustler

2. (horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
3. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other, now usually in the phrase dead ringer.

   Synonym: dead ringer
4. (Britain, slang) A fraudulently cloned motor vehicle.
   • 2020, Tom Hartley, Tom Hartley: The Dealmaker

     I had heard early on in my career about 'ringers': cars that were stolen and cloned, but it was 1993 before I was to experience this first-hand.

Etymology 4

Unknown. Probably so named after the custom of ringing a bell to denote the winner of a contest or competition.

Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. (Britain, dialect) A top performer.
2. (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
3. (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
   • 1964, Alec Bolton, Walkabout?s Australia, Walkabout magazine, page 107,

     The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.

   • 1987, Geoffrey Atkinson, Philip Quirk. The Australian Adventure: The Explorer?s Guide to the Island Continent, page 175,

     This vast holding is run by six ringers and six boys. A ringer is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become a ringer.

   • 2005, Jake Drake, The Wild West in Australia and America, page 156,

     Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe the ringer?s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian. There is ample evidence however, that it was practised in South and Central America long before it was developed here.

Etymology 5

Perhaps dissimilated from Middle English wringere (“stingy person, pennypincher, one who financially oppresses, an extortioner”).

Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. (slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.

Etymology 6

ring +? -er, from the noun.

Noun

ringer (plural ringers)

1. (Britain, military, informal, in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
   • 2012, John Harris, The Lonely Voyage

     A group of naval one- and two-ringers were chatting by the office door with a few ratings, complete with kit-bags and oilskins.

   • 2013, Dudley Pope, Convoy

     The senior officer of the escort was an RN two and a half ringer who had a reputation of being one of the best.

Anagrams

• Griner, erring, gerrin', girner

Danish

Verb

ringer

1. present of ringe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ringer m

1. indefinite plural of ring

Verb

ringer

1. present of ringe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

ringer

1. present tense of ringa and ringe

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hringr, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz.

Noun

ringer m

1. ring, circle

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: ring

Swedish

Verb

ringer

1. present tense of ringa.