administrative
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4.6
- adjective
- /ədˈmɪnɪstrətɪv/
:
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.
- All right, You are an administrative assistant here.
- They made some phone calls and I was able to get an administrative discharge from the Navy.
- I have two assistants who helped me with the administrative side because thank God we have grown.
- Only weeks ago, Moscow proclaimed that great city as its administrative capital.
- We're still talking about the lack of administrative control over powerful individuals.
- And what he saw was real push back from particularly the administrative staff.
- We sent a letter demanding a hearing in the administrative court.
- We have enormous administrative bloat in the the country.
- We can use this custom view and administrative events to see the drive dropping out or or not.
Examples
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Dennis is in the room somewhere to help with the administrative duties and the committee work.
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All right, You are an administrative assistant here.
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I was up in the administrative department with the big noise.
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We're still talking about the lack of administrative control over powerful individuals.
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Well, we completed the administrative procedure.
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That was just an administrative error.
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We as a company have very, very low administrative overhead.
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So how have we tried to contain costs given that prices going up and administrative burden is is heavy?
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Administrative leave with pay is not acceptable.
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The Larkins had invited not only faculty members and administrative staff but a dozen or so students.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
25
5.5
Relating to the duties and work of managers
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
2
6.9
A meeting outside court where an official listens to both sides and decides a dispute with a government office
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3.7
A region like a state or district that a government uses to run local services
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4.4
A person who manages office work and makes official decisions in a government or large organization
- Specialized
To use computers to store, manage and handle business or accounting information
- Specialized
A virtual group that holds users or devices so administrators can manage permissions
How Administrative
Surface Forms
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.