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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Administration \Ad*min'is*tra"tion\ (?; 277), noun [OE. administracioun, L. administratio: cf. F. administration.]
1. 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.
His financial administration was of a piece with his military administration. --Macaulay.
2. 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.
A mild and popular administration. --Macaulay.
The administration has been opposed in parliament. --Johnson.
3. 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.
4. (Law) (a) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor. (b) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
{Administration with the will annexed}, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.
Syn: Conduct; management; direction; regulation; execution; dispensation; distribution.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
administration
noun
1: a method of tending to (especially business) matters [syn: {disposal}]
2: the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment" [syn: {governance}, {governing body}, {establishment}, {brass}, {organization}, {organisation}]
3: the act of administering medication [syn: {giving medication}]
4: the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration" [syn: {presidency}, {presidential term}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
179 Moby Thesaurus words for "administration": academic dean, accomplishment, achievement, administering, administrator, application, applying, archon, auspices, authority, bestowal, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, bureaucracy, cabinet, cadre, care, chancellor, charge, chief executive, chief executive officer, civil government, claws, clutches, command, command function, commission, completion, conduct, control, council, cure, custodianship, custody, dean, dean of men, dean of women, decision-making, delivery, direction, directorate, directory, disbursal, disbursement, discharge, discipline, dispatch, dispensation, dispersion, disposal, disposition, distribution, dole, doling, doling out, dominion, dosage, dosing, effectuation, empery, empire, enactment, enforcing, execution, executive, executive arm, executive committee, executive director, executive function, executive hierarchy, executive officer, executive secretary, forcing, forcing on, form of government, furnishing, giving, giving out, governance, governing board, governing body, government, grip, guardianship, guidance, hand, handling, hands, headmaster, headmistress, hierarchy, higher echelons, higher-ups, implementation, infrastructure, interlocking directorate, iron hand, issuance, jurisdiction, keeping, magistrate, management, managing director, master, meting out, ministry, officer, official, officialdom, officiation, oversight, passing around, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, paying out, performance, perpetration, political organization, polity, power, prefect, prelacy, prescribing, president, prexy, principal, protectorship, provision, provost, raj, rector, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, reign, rule, ruling class, ruling classes, safe hands, secretary, sovereignty, steering committee, stewardship, superintendence, supervision, supplying, sway, system of government, talons, the Establishment, the administration, the authorities, the brass, the executive, the ingroup, the interests, the people upstairs, the power elite, the power structure, the top, them, they, top brass, transaction, treasurer, tutelage, vice-chancellor, vice-president, ward, warden, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, wing
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ADMINISTRATION, noun An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.
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