Administration vs Minister - What's the difference?
administration | minister |
(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.
A person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church.
A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
* Bible, (w) xxiv. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
(archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians ix. 10
* Jeremy Taylor
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
As nouns the difference between administration and minister
is that administration is administration while minister is minister (a person who is commissioned by the government for public service).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.
Synonyms
* supervision, conduct, management, regulation, organization, governingReferences
* ----minister
English
Noun
(en noun) (minister)- Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.
- Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.
- I chose / Camillo for the minister , to poison / My friend Polixenes.
Verb
(en verb)- A newspaper headline: Couple leaves business world to minister to inner-city children
- He that ministereth seed to the sower.
- We minister to God reason to suspect us.
- I do well believe your highness; and did it to / minister occasion to these gentlemen [...] (to give opportunity to these gentlemen)