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administration is on the Academic Word List.
Pronunciation[change]
- IPA (key): /ədˌmɪnəˈstreɪʃən/
- SAMPA: /@d%mIn@"str\eIS@n/
- (uncountable) Administration is the process of running and organising an organisation such as a business or government.
- The mayor is responsible for the administration of the town.
- He wanted to go into politics, so he studied public administration at university.
- (countable & uncountable) The administration are the people who run and organise an organisation such as a business or government.
- In short, the administration does not actually know why it wants a space station.
- The Bush administration has one of the worst records of any American government.
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