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administer

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1. administer - Noun

2. administer - Verb

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To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.

To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.

To tender, as an oath.

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

To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.

To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

Administrator.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. Andrew Carnegie

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. Ernest Hemingway

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. Thomas Sowell

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. Andrew Carnegie

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Who demands justice, must administer justice. German Proverb

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