administrative

Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to administration; administering; executive; as, an administrative body, ability, or energy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

official supervisory management executive governmental clerical bureaucratic managerial organizational regulatory departmental central control public government
Show all synonyms

Antonyms

second lack minor ban obscure disadvantage
Show all antonyms

Related terms

minister administrator administer administerial administrivia

Phrases with the word

administrative court administrative office chief administrative assistant administrative head administrative control administrative building

Examples

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. Saul Bellow

The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. Charles Hodge

Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons. Gianfranco Fini

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail. Vladimir Nabokov

Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings. Oswald Pohl

There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion. Ahmed Djemal

Close letter words and terms

administration officials administration site conditions administrational administrative act administrative acts administrative agency