: of or relating to administration or an administration : executive
- administrative duties
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Updated on: 21 Apr 2018
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Examples of administrative in a Sentence
She has an administrative job.
among his other administrative duties is the appointment of transit authority officials
Recent Examples of administrative from the Web
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The country’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, ruled Tuesday that migrants reaching the Greek islands who apply for asylum will be allowed to travel to the mainland while their applications are being processed.
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He is experienced in all levels of federal, state, county and administrative proceedings, including both trial and appellate court matters.
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But without those, sloppiness, even extreme sloppiness, is handled through administrative discipline.
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When the government proposed the administrative reconciliation law granting amnesty for officials and citizens who benefited financially from the Ben Ali regime, young activists, many of them former revolutionaries, returned to the streets in force.
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This has obviously broken down under Trump, but not in a way that is strictly about tweets or administrative procedure violations.
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The grand jury subpoenaed the records last month, and investigators made arrangements to pick them up at the sheriff's administrative complex on Brown's Switch Road.
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Although hundreds of scientists and engineers were already planning and designing this spacecraft, the key decisions were being made in this room on the top floor of the administrative building at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Peart gets temporary raise for interim role The council also approved a $1,000 stipend to Interim City Administrator Joseph Peart who is tackling two administrative jobs within the city, including his normal job as city public works director.
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ADMINISTRATIVE Defined for English Language Learners
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: of or relating to the management of a company, school, or other organization
ADMINISTRATIVE Defined for Kids
: of or assisting in administration
Law Dictionary
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: of or relating to the performance of a function : ministerial
- administrative communications include…instructions that encourage a jury to continue its deliberations
- —National Law Journal
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: of or relating to the executive branch of a government — compare legislative, judicial
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: of or relating to a government agency
- administrative remedies
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