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Answer for the clue "Someone who manages a government agency or department ", 13 letters:
administrator

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who administers a business [syn: decision maker ] the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor someone who manages a government agency or department [syn: executive ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES system administrator COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE assistant ▪ Larger facilities typically have several assistant administrators to aid the top administrator and to handle day-to-day decisions. chief ▪ Guests ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager 2 (context legal English) A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The title Administrator of the Government ( Administrator ) has several uses in Australia.

Usage examples of administrator.

State A, such adjudication of domicile was held not to bind one subsequently appointed as domiciliary administrator c.

Then came another flash and a second man emerged before the administrator -- short, but with athletic shoulders, hair red as fire, albugo in one eye, a fang in his mouth .

He combines ecclesiastical with secular functions, being apostolic administrator and bishop of Hermopolis, and at the same time Grand Almoner of the household and superintendent of the third Salle of the casino.

Washington might spell the beginnings of a slow ossification into the role of dedicated administrator, and a waning of the dynamism that had helped fling humanity across the Solar System.

Roth is introduced to flight directors, deputy flight directors, flight surgeons, ground controllers, cosmonauts, former cosmonauts, Energia executives, TsUP administrators, several chain-smoking engineers, and a janitor.

His dark eyes glance toward the lobby, in which police officers and college administrators are still swarming like fashionistas at a sample sale.

For example, a network administrator may post a question about configuring firewall filters on a particular brand and model of firewall.

A moment later Gordian rose as NASA Administrator Charles Dorset arrived, clasped his hand, and bore him off to meet a group of officials in one of the adjacent rooms.

By then Grom had engineered for himself a rapid rise through the ranks of the tiny Union Island government bureaucracy and was already chief of staff to the island administrator.

He would take on clients to increase his kudos, the level of which would increase proportionally the more powerful were the people he tailored for, so that somebody in a position of civil power would constitute a favoured client, even if that position of power had come about through a lottery, some arcanely complicated rota system or plain old coercive voting - jobs like that of City Administrator were subject to all those regimes and more, depending on the band or zone concerned, or just which city was involved.

When they signed documents, they often added the names and positions of their fathers, which confirms that they were usually the sons of city governors, temple administrators, army officers, or priests: literacy was confined to scribes and administrators.

Castle was a forceful public speaker, a faithful supporter of his fellow legislators both in the House and on the hustings, an able advocate of popular causes in the Congress, and an indefatigable and efficient administrator of the most mediagenic agency of the U.

In return, the Filipino political leader has not hesitated to make use of unbridled mendacity in attacking America and her administrators.

Let him call Venus a Nomarchy, let him bring in his own people to serve on the Project Council and as Administrators.

This author seemed only to exist as the payee on checks that had been cashed through an account belonging to the administrator of Safe Harbor, a social services facility in Sault Ste.