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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
administrator
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 included the local chief administrator and founder of the Catering Equipment Manufacturing Company.
▪ A large practice of 40 or 50 physicians may have a chief administrator and several assistants, each responsible for different areas.
▪ Home of our medical director and chief administrator, of course, and his wife.
▪ You are the chief administrator of a private school.
colonial
▪ There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers, merchants and colonial administrators rather than landed gentry.
▪ I believe I can read the names of a few redundant colonial administrators.
deputy
▪ Hobson was the associate deputy administrator for government contracting and minority enterprise development.
local
▪ Guests included the local chief administrator and founder of the Catering Equipment Manufacturing Company.
▪ The local railway administrators were terrorized into collaborating.
professional
▪ The professional versus administrator clash is a second structurally induced clash over power.
▪ At both central and local level of government there are elected representatives and professional administrators and other staff.
▪ Some of its members were experienced professional administrators.
senior
▪ Members of Congress and senior administrators are moved by considerations other than the carrots and sticks available to a chief executive.
top
▪ In smaller facilities, top administrators may handle more of the details of day-to-day operations.
▪ In one, a top agency administrator was accused of improperly influencing contract bids.
▪ The orchestra also saw its five top administrators resign last year, including executive director Michael Tiknis.
■ NOUN
city
▪ The city administrator should help make the government work more efficiently.
▪ The new charter, which was trimmed down to just 82 pages, replaces the chief administrative officer with a city administrator.
▪ The six included Bobb and Uberuaga, who was the city administrator of Huntington Beach.
county
▪ The county administrator grew up poor, the son of sharecroppers, in a house with no indoor plumbing.
▪ The first major difference among the Democratic majority to publicly surface is the choice of county administrator.
▪ The county administrator seems to want people to believe he's changed with the times.
database
▪ In some circumstances the database administrator will be the project leader.
▪ Tables of lexicographers and of the group memberships of lexicographers are created and maintained by the database administrator.
▪ This will be a decision of the database administrator.
education
▪ To be considered for education administrator positions, workers must first prove themselves in their current jobs.
▪ Higher education administrators also provide student services.
▪ Job Outlook Substantial competition is expected for prestigious jobs as education administrators.
▪ Employment of education administrators is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through the year 2005.
▪ Working Conditions Education administrators hold management positions with significant responsibility.
▪ The number of education administrators employed depends largely on State and local expenditures for education.
▪ Most education administrators work more than 40 hours a week, including many nights and weekends when they oversee school activities.
▪ Employment Education administrators held about 393, 000 jobs in 1994.
hospital
▪ Conductors and hospital administrators come out of courses in conducting or schools of hospital administration respectively.
▪ He fled the scene on foot, but turned up several hours later at Summit Medical Center. Hospital administrators notified authorities.
▪ A study of hospital administrators found that it took individuals eighteen months before they felt comfortable in that far less demanding role.
▪ For personal care the chain of complaint is: physician, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, hospital administrator, hospital director.
▪ His father, a teacher of math and science, became a school superintendent and then a hospital administrator.
network
▪ Although it is already technically possible for network administrators to monitor Internet traffic, such tracking has been difficult to do.
▪ Interestingly, the security problems plaguing network administrators resemble the problems facing transaction-based electronic commerce.
office
▪ Home Office administrators have already surveyed former camps and found only one suitable.
▪ Some principals and central office administrators have a doctorate or specialized degree in education administration.
school
▪ He says he's a retired school administrator.
▪ In this day of the lawsuit, touching a student is often actively discouraged by school administrators.
▪ The school security specialists also want local law enforcement officials and school administrators to improve their cooperation to stem the violence.
▪ Some private school administrators said an exodus from public schools would force schools to work more efficiently.
system
▪ It is designed to enable system administrators to identify and fix problems before they come to most users' attention.
▪ This approach worked in the past, when the system administrator had to worry about a limited threat.
▪ It comes with three support options: for application developers, end-users and system administrators.
university
▪ Imagine yourself in the position of one of the university administrators.
■ VERB
appoint
▪ He will have authority over the Kremlin-#appointed Chechen administrator, Akhmed Kadyrov.
▪ Four times in the past two years, the central bank has appointed administrators to small Czech banks with similar problems.
become
▪ The second plaintiff became its administrator in 1980.
▪ In 1981, he became an administrator at the publishing company Hachette before expanding his interest to the Filipacchi group in 1984.
▪ Discouraged, he gave up and became an administrator.
▪ He gave up stockbroking and became a selector and administrator, but in his later years was almost a recluse.
▪ I think he will become a very good administrator.
▪ Numbers of them became administrators or held important posts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Nadine works as a hospital administrator.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Howard Patrick, executive administrator of Cannon County, has been determined to turn things around.
▪ Its only proposal for health is to undo reforms which make administrators pay more attention to patients.
▪ One day after the riot, probation officers and state and county investigators interviewed children and the administrators.
▪ Poor Law administrators in practice operated with considerably varying degrees of harshness or generosity.
▪ Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy.
▪ The celebration was planned by Todd's catechist, volunteer musicians and the administrator at the home.
▪ This process should improve communication among teachers, administrators, and parents.
▪ What follows is an inside look at an arts administrator at work.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Administrator

Administrator \Ad*min`is*tra"tor\, n. [L.]

  1. One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.

  2. (Law) A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
administrator

mid-15c., from Middle French administrateur or directly from Latin administrator "a manager, conductor," agent noun from past participle stem of administrare (see administer). Estate sense is earliest. For ending, see -er.

Wiktionary
administrator

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 testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority 3 (context computing English) One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network

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WordNet
administrator

  1. n. someone who administers a business [syn: decision maker]

  2. the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor

  3. someone who manages a government agency or department [syn: executive]

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Wikipedia
Administrator

Administrator or Admin may refer to:

  • Business administration, a person responsible for the performance or management of administrative business operations
  • Administrator of the Government, in various Commonwealth realms and territories
    • Administrator (Australia), for use of this title in Australia
  • In the independent agencies of the United States government, the highest executive officer in an independent agency whose name ends with the word "administration"
  • Administrator (law), a person appointed by a court to handle the administration of an estate for someone who has died without a will
  • Administration (law), a procedure under the insolvency laws of a number of common law jurisdictions
  • Academic administration, administration of a school
  • Administrator (role), one of the roles in the Keirsey Temperament Sorter personality assessment scheme
  • Administrator (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
  • Administr@tor, an education magazine published by Scholastic Corporation
  • Arts administrator, responsible for the business end of an arts organization
  • Administrator, a practitioner of public administration
Administrator (Australia)

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

Administrator (law)

In law an administrator (or administratrix for women) can be:

  • a person appointed by the court to handle the estate of someone who died without a will ( administrator of an estate).
  • In United Kingdom bankruptcy law, an office holder appointed under an Administration Order in relation to a company in financial difficulty, as an alternative to liquidation.
Administrator (disambiguation)
Administrator (comics)
  1. Redirect List of Marvel Comics characters: A#Administrator
Administrator (of ecclesiastical property)

In the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, an administrator of ecclesiastical property is anyone charged with the care of church property.

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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.