noun 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.
noun 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.
Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.
noun The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
The Obama administration
noun A body that administers; a body of administrators.
noun The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament
noun Management.
noun An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
The company went into voluntary administration last week.