Noun

(en noun)

Mode of rule or management.

A form of government, or the government in power (as in a socialist regime).

A period of rule.

A regulated system; a regimen.

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(hydrology) A set of characteristics.

Noun

(en-noun)

(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.

Successive US administrations have had similar Middle East policies.

(uncountable) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.

''the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

(uncountable, business) Management.

(uncountable, legal, UK) An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.

The company went into voluntary administration last week.