word-vault/dist/data/cards/ad/administration.json

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{
    "term": "administration",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the activities that are done in order to plan, organize and run a business, school or other institution",
            "labels": "informal",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Administration costs are passed on to the customer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the day-to-day administration of a company"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I work in the Sales Administration department."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The college loses a lot of money through poor administration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A large part of his job involves routine administration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are gradually doing away with centralized bureaucratic administration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Until now, she has been entirely responsible for the administration of the school."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["effective", "efficient", "good"],
                "verb + administration": ["be in charge of", "be responsible for"],
                "administration + noun": ["costs"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the government of a country, especially the US",
            "sensetop": "during/under the… administration",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "under the Trump administration",
                    "contextForm": "during/under the… administration"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Successive administrations have failed to solve the country's economic problems."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A senior **administration official** has decided to step down."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was Secretary of Education in Bush's first administration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her resignation is the second of a senior member of the administration within a month."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The current administration will remain in office until elections in November."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He continued as head of a caretaker administration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the handover of sovereignty by the British colonial administration"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the role of the UN in the setting-up of an interim administration"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["colonial", "federal", "local"],
                "verb + administration": ["form"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the management of public affairs",
            "sensetop": "under… administration",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The inhabitants of the island voted to remain under French administration.",
                    "contextForm": "under… administration"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "government (2)"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the process or act of organizing the way that something is done",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **administration of justice**"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["effective", "efficient", "good"],
                "verb + administration": ["be in charge of", "be responsible for"],
                "administration + noun": ["costs"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the people who plan, organize and run a business, an institution, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "university administrations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The hospital administration can refuse patients' access to their own records."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The prison administration is working hard to improve the service."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has been in dispute with the New Zealand cricket administration."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["college", "hospital", "prison"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "the act of giving a drug to somebody",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the administration of antibiotics"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Healthcare"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["intravenous", "oral", "drug"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "a situation in which the financial affairs of a business that cannot pay its debts are managed by an independent administrator",
            "labels": "(British English, Australian English, law)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "If it cannot find extra funds, the company will **go into administration**."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃn/",
                "audio": "ad/administration/administration__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ədˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃn/",
                "audio": "ad/administration/administration__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Latin administratio(n-), from the verb administrare , from ad- ‘to’ + ministrare ‘wait upon’, from minister ‘servant’, from minus ‘less’."
}