administrivia
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9.1
- noun
- /ˌæd.mɪ.nɪˈstrɪ.vi.ə/
- Jargon
- I dug through the chasm of emails and administrivia that were hanging over me.
Examples
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The researcher can too easily find himself captured by the subject of his inquiry and lost among an avalanche of administrivia.
Academic text (2001) -
We're going to start at the beginning with the administrivia stuff.
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Nothing more maddening than administrivia.
Blog text (23) -
Most ACLFs hired business managers to handle the day-to-day administrivia that had formerly dominated school principals' time.
Academic text (2001) -
Actually, the Virtual Learning Commons can be the best tool the part-time professional, the multi-school professional, or the district-level professional has to make an actual difference in teaching and learning as opposed to just being able to handle administrivia across the various locations assigned.
Academic text (2015) -
Actually, if I met Neal Stephenson, I would probably ask him what the odds are of him going back to writing books like The Diamond Age, instead of rambling odes to historical administrivia that take 8 years to write.
Blog text (27) -
They have editorials from prominent members of the association, summaries of recent published research, reviews of recent meetings, and updates on various administrivia associated with the specialty rules and regulations.
Blog text (25) -
In order to keep the project on track, we had to deal with a lot of administrivia before the deadline.
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The manager spent the majority of her day on routine administrivia, such as scheduling meetings and answering emails.
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He was frustrated by the endless administrivia that seemed to consume all of his productive time.
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Administrivia is a mix of administration ('managing or office work') and trivia ('small or unimportant details'), so it means the small, routine admin tasks that feel boring but are necessary.