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administratorship

administratorship

9.5
Authority from a court to manage a dead person's money and property
  • noun
  • /ˌæd.mɪ.nɪˈstreɪ.tər.ʃɪp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : administración
  • After the owner's death, the court granted her son the administratorship to manage the family estate.

Examples

  • The lawyer explained that the administratorship includes settling debts and distributing the deceased's assets.

  • Being appointed to the administratorship came with significant responsibilities, including overseeing the will's execution.

  • Although Reuther had not taken vigorous action against vigilantism, after the committee concluded the interrogation of about a dozen Ford UAW leaders, he and the UAW executive board acted aggressively against Local 600, placing an administratorship over the local.

    Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

personal representative
vsadministratorship
  • Formal
3 6.9

A person chosen by law to manage someone's affairs and money after they die

is the formal legal authority held when someone is court appointed to manage an estate
trusteeship
vsadministratorship
7.4

The job of managing money or property for other people

is specific to a court appointment for handling a deceased estate rather than general asset management

Surface Forms

administratorship singular
administratorships plural

Morphology

administratorship = administrator (semi-transparent) = administrator + ship

Formed by the clear suffix '-ship' on 'administrator', but the first sense refers to a specific legal authority over a deceased person's estate, a technical nuance that may not be inferable by an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Administratorship comes from the old Latin verb administrare, which means 'to serve' or 'to manage' and is related to minister, a word for someone who helps or directs; the ending -ship means 'state or position', like in leadership, so the term means the official position of managing another person's affairs, as when a court gives someone charge of a deceased person's estate.