Definition of Administration

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Administration

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; management.

The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted 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.

The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.

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Administration Quotations

The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Barack Obama

Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.
Barack Obama

My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks.
Barack Obama

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington

It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.
Edward Kennedy

We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
Edward Kennedy

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
Edward Kennedy

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?"
Glenn Beck

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'Rourke

Administration Translations

administration in Afrikaans is administrasie, beheer, kontrole
administration in Dutch is administratiekantoor, bestuur
administration in French is administration
administration in Italian is economato
administration in Latin is cura, procuratio, administratio
administration in Norwegian is forvaltning

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