administer: difference between revisions

 

===Pronunciation===

 

===Verb===

{{en-verb}}

 

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To apportion out, distribute.

#* {{RQ:Philips Cyder|book=I|page=3|passage=[Let zephyrs] '''administer''' their tepid, genial airs.}}

#* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|passage=Justice was '''administered''' between man and man with an exactness and purity not before known.}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[manage]] or [[supervise]] the [[conduct]], [[performance]] or [[execution]] of; to [[govern]] or [[regulate]] the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an [[administrative]] capacity.

|text=Located in the northwestern side of the Black Sea, Snake Island, or called ostriv Zmiyinyy in Ukrainian and Insula Serpilor in Romanian, is currently '''administered''' by Ukraine but claimed by Romania.}}

# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[minister]] (to).

# {{lb|en|legal}} To [[settle]], as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an [[executor]].

# To give, as an oath.

#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2|I|iii|passage=Swear {{...}} to keep the oath that we '''administer'''.}}

 

====Related terms====

|administrative

|administrator

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{{trans-top|to cause to take by openly offering or through deceit}}

* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|предписвам}}

* Catalan: {{t+|ca|administrar}}

* Czech: {{t+|cs|podat}}

* Dutch: {{t+|nl|toedienen}}

* French: {{t+|fr|administrer}}

* Galician: {{t+|gl|administrar}}

* Romanian: {{t+|ro|administra}}

* Russian: {{t+|ru|пропи́сывать|impf}}, {{t+|ru|прописа́ть|pf}} {{qualifier|prescribe}}, {{t+|ru|назнача́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|назна́чить|pf}}

* Spanish: {{t+|es|administrar}}

* Welsh: {{t+|cy|gweinyddu}}

{{trans-top|to work in an administrative capacity; to supervise}}

* Belarusian: {{t|be|адміністрава́ць|impf}}

* Catalan: {{t+|ca|administrar}}

* Chinese:

* Czech: {{t+|cs|spravovat}}

* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|administri}}

* French: {{t+|fr|administrer}}, {{t+|fr|gérer}}

* Galician: {{t+|gl|administrar}}

* German: {{t+|de|verwalten}}, {{t+|de|administrieren}}

* Greek: {{t+|el|διοικώ}}

* Ido: {{t+|io|administrar}}

* Italian: {{t+|it|amministrare}}

* Manchu: {{t|mnc|ᡴᠠᡩᠠᠯᠠᠮᠪᡳ}}

* Maori: {{t|mi|minita}}

* Polish: {{t+|pl|zarządzać|impf}}, {{t+|pl|administrować|impf}}

* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|administrar}}

* Finnish: {{t+|fi|palvella}}, {{t+|fi|hoitaa}}

* French: {{t+|fr|administrer}}

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===Anagrams===

* {{anagrams|en|a=adeiimnrst|administre|mistrained|nitramides}}

 

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