Definition of "administration"

administration

/ədˌmɪnəˈstɹeɪʃən/

noun
usually uncountable, plural administrations
1. (uncountable) 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.
2. (countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted 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.
3. (government, politics) The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
4. (countable) A body that administers; a body of administrators.
  Quotations
  The Chiang Mai Administrative Court ruled in favour of students from the Media Arts and Design Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, who filed for a temporary injunction on 18 October after the University administration prohibited them from showing their final theses in the University Art Centre because some pieces dealt with social and political themes.
  2021 November 6, Prachatai, “Chiang Mai Administrative Court rules in favour of CMU student”, in Prachatai‎, Bangkok: Prachatai, retrieved 2021-11-06
5. (uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
6. (uncountable, business) Management.
7. (uncountable, law, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.