Administration

·noun The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.

II. Administration ·noun The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

III. Administration ·noun The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

IV. Administration ·noun 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; management.

V. Administration ·noun The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted 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.