Verb

(en verb)

To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.

We administered the medicine to our dog by mixing it in his food.

* Macaulay

A noxious drug had been administered to him.

To apportion out.

* Spectator

A fountain administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place.

* Macaulay

Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known.

* Philips

[Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs.

To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

* Alexander Pope

For forms of government let fools contest: / Whate'er is best administered is best.

To minister (to).

administering to the sick

(legal) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

To tender, as an oath.

* Shakespeare

Swear to keep the oath that we administer .

Verb

(conced)

To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question.

He conceded the race once it was clear he could not win.

Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.

To grant, as a right or privilege; to make concession of.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge.

To yield or make concession.

(sports) To have a goal or point scored against

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(cricket) (of a bowler) to have runs scored off of one's bowling.