Administration
Administration (?; 277) , noun
[Old English administracioun, Latin administratio: compare French 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.
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.
The administration has been opposed in parliament.
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.
(a) (Law) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.
(b)
(Law) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.
Collocations (1)
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.