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administrative

administrative

180 4.6
Relating to the work of managing an office, school, or business
  • adjective
  • /ədˈmɪnɪstrətɪv/
translation icon : administrativo
  • The new software will streamline our administrative tasks and improve efficiency.
  • administrative staff
  • administrative support
  • administrative tasks

All right, You are an administrative assistant here.

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Examples

  • Dennis is in the room somewhere to help with the administrative duties and the committee work.

  • All right, You are an administrative assistant here.

  • I was up in the administrative department with the big noise.

  • We're still talking about the lack of administrative control over powerful individuals.

  • Well, we completed the administrative procedure.

  • That was just an administrative error.

  • We as a company have very, very low administrative overhead.

  • So how have we tried to contain costs given that prices going up and administrative burden is is heavy?

  • Administrative leave with pay is not acceptable.

  • The Larkins had invited not only faculty members and administrative staff but a dozen or so students.

    Fiction book (1992)

Synonyms

managerial
vsadministrative
25 5.5

Relating to the duties and work of managers

covers wider organizational processes beyond only leaders' duties

Antonyms

116 4.7

Not organized and full of confusion

38 3.1

Not in a clear order or plan

Compounds

administrative law
  • Specialized
4 5.3

Rules and decisions that tell government agencies how to act

2 6.9

A meeting outside court where an official listens to both sides and decides a dispute with a government office

A group that manages official tasks for a company or public service

A region like a state or district that a government uses to run local services

A person who manages office work and makes official decisions in a government or large organization

An area managed by local government for public services

To use computers to store, manage and handle business or accounting information

A part of an organization that manages specific tasks and services

administrative unit
  • Specialized
4.9

A virtual group that holds users or devices so administrators can manage permissions

How Administrative

executive
533 4.5
managerial
25 5.5
administrative
180 4.6
clerical
25 3.7
operational
56 4.3

Surface Forms

administrative positive

Morphology

administrative = administration (transparent) = administration + ive

Clear adjectival formation from the noun 'administration' using a productive suffix; learners who know 'administration' can infer the meaning of 'administrative'.

Etymology

Administrative comes from the Latin administrare, made of ad- 'to' and ministrare 'to serve', and it shares the same root as minister and administration. So, administrative describes the work of managing, serving, and running an organization.