Administration vs Generalship - What's the difference?
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(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.
(countable) A body that administers; 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.
(uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
(uncountable, business) Management.
(uncountable, legal, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
The position or office of a general.
The term of office of a military general.
:George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.
The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 277:
*:At the same time, awed by the brilliant and daring generalship which had enabled the Russian to capture their city with so small a force, the elders gave him the honorific title of ‘Lion of Tashkent’.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 136:
*:Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship .
By extension, leadership, good management.
:Under my generalship my fine troop of brats picked up every scrap of litter in that lot.
Administration is a related term of generalship.
As nouns the difference between administration and generalship
is that administration is administration while generalship is the position or office of a general.administration
English
(wikipedia administration)Noun
(en-noun)- Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.
- ''the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.
- The company went into voluntary administration last week.
