Administration | Mean of administration in English Dictionary

/ədˌmɪnəˈstreɪʃən/

• Noun
• the activities that relate to running a company, school, or other organization
1. He works in hospital administration. [=his work involves management of a hospital]
2. She has a degree in business administration.
• a group of people who manage the way a company, school, or other organization functions
1. The editorial criticizes the college's administration for not taking a stand on the issue.
• a government or part of a government that is identified with its leader (such as a U.S. president or British prime minister)
1. We studied U.S. foreign policy in/during the Reagan Administration. [=during the time when Reagan was President]
2. the Thatcher administration
3. Her lecture compared the policies of this administration to the previous one.
4. Administration officials refused to comment.
5. At first, the administration denied the allegations.

• a U.S. government department
1. The drug has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
• the act or process of providing or administering something
1. the administration of justice
2. oral administration of the drug