administrator

noun

ad·min·is·tra·tor | \ əd-ˈmi-nə-ˌstrā-tər

, -ˌstrā-ˌtȯr\

Definition of administrator

1 : a person legally vested with the right of administration of an estate

2a : one who administers especially business, school, or governmental affairs

b : a person who manages a computer network or system network administrators

3 : a priest appointed to administer a diocese or parish temporarily

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Her eldest son will act as the administrator of the estate.

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Of 1,692 houses, condo buildings and other dwellings in Mexico Beach, 809 were destroyed or substantially damaged, said Tanya Castro, the city administrator. — Arian Campo-flores, WSJ, "Flattened by Hurricane Michael, Florida Town Tries to Stave Off Big Development," 3 Apr. 2019 The bill proposes for the Howard County animal administrator to have the authority to send out social media and internet alerts to residents, Weinstein has said. — Jess Nocera, Howard County Times, "Amendment added to proposed Howard dog legislation, bans tethering and expands to cover all weather conditions," 19 June 2018 Romero met with administrators and told them this could be frightening for undocumented students and went against the school’s mission. — Asia Fields, The Seattle Times, "Seattle University Law School suspends externship with ICE," 21 Nov. 2018 The school system takes a collaborative approach between administrators, partners from the community, student support team members, teachers, the parents and the student to address attendance needs, Whitaker said. — Jess Nocera, Howard County Times, "Howard school absentee rate is lowest in Maryland," 22 June 2018 Mississippi State administrators, players and coaches declined comment on details of Cannizaro’s time here—still a touchy subject. — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, "How Mississippi State Baseball Turned a Season That Began in Humiliation Into a Trip to Omaha," 15 June 2018 For Dewey, everything reduced to a simple question: who is most in need of enlightenment, citizens or administrators? — Sean Illing, Vox, "Intellectuals have said democracy is failing for a century. They were wrong.," 20 Dec. 2018 In some cases, military personnel were listed as administrators on the Pages. — Kurt Wagner, Recode, "Facebook removed hundreds more accounts linked to the Myanmar military for posting hate speech and attacks against ethnic minorities," 19 Dec. 2018 Hospital administrators see the clinics as a threat to a coldly scientific eugenics regime. — Adi Robertson, The Verge, "The best Blade Runner anime would have nothing to do with Blade Runner," 2 Dec. 2018

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administrator

noun

English Language Learners Definition of administrator

: a person whose job is to manage a company, school, or other organization

: a person who controls the use of something (such as property or money)

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administrator

noun

ad·min·is·tra·tor | \ əd-ˈmi-nə-ˌstrā-tər

Kids Definition of administrator

: a person who administers business, school, or government affairs

administrator

noun

ad·min·i·stra·tor | \ əd-ˈmi-nə-ˌstrā-tər

Legal Definition of administrator

1 : a person appointed by a probate court to manage the distribution of the assets in the estate of a person who has died without leaving a valid will or leaving a will that does not name an executor able or willing to perform — see also administratrix, letters of administration at letter sense 2 — compare executor, personal representative

— administrator ad litem

: an administrator appointed to represent an estate that is a necessary party to a lawsuit

— administrator cum testamento annexo

: administrator with the will annexed in this entry

— administrator de bonis non \ -dē-ˈbō-nis-ˈnän, -dā-ˈbō-nis-ˈnōn \

: an administrator appointed to administer the remaining assets in the estate when the preceding administrator or executor can or will no longer perform

— administrator pendente lite \ -pen-ˈden-tē-ˈlī-tē, -pen-ˈden-tā-ˈlē-tā \

: special administrator in this entry

— administrator with the will annexed

: an administrator appointed to administer an estate where the will names no executor or where the named executor is incapable of performing or unwilling to perform

— called also administrator cum testamento annexo

— ancillary administrator

: a subordinate administrator appointed to administer the assets of an estate that are located in a different jurisdiction from the one where the deceased was domiciled and where the primary administration of the estate is taking place

— foreign administrator

: an administrator appointed in another state

— general administrator

: an administrator appointed to administer the entire estate of a deceased person in accordance with the laws of intestacy or in accordance with the will if there is one — compare special administrator in this entry

— independent administrator

: an administrator whose administration of the estate is entirely or mostly unsupervised by the probate court

— public administrator

1 : a public officer who administers the estates of deceased people when there is no one else willing or entitled to perform

2 : an administrator appointed in some states for the sole purpose of being responsible for the assets in an estate pending settlement of a dispute or when there is doubt as to who should be appointed administrator

— special administrator

1 : an administrator appointed to administer only a designated part of the deceased person's estate

2 : an administrator appointed for the sole purpose of being responsible for the assets in an estate usually in some emergency (as a will contest) — compare general administrator in this entry