Thesaurus results for ADMINISTRATING

administrating

verb

present participle of administrate

as in managing

to look after and make decisions about they're looking for someone to administrate the new division

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Recent Examples of administrating Iranian and Omani officials also were working on a mechanism for administrating the strait, through which a fifth of the world's oil is shipped in peacetime. — Compiled Bydemocrat-Gazette Stafffrom Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 7 Apr. 2026 As talks continued, Iranian and Omani officials also were working on a mechanism for administrating the strait through which a fifth of the world’s oil is shipped in peacetime. — ABC News, 6 Apr. 2026 Clark was administrating Harvey through a period of major financial difficulty. — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026

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Verb

The Rams have done a great job of managing him and keeping him out of harm’s way.

— Jess Bryant, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
One of the department's biggest roles is managing flood control and protection.

— Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of managing

Verb

Filmiki’s Nikolas Alavanos is co-producer with Steve Solomos as supervising producer.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Hartman has worked for Johnson Brothers Maverick beverage distribution company for a few years now, and has experience supervising the bar at The Adolphus Hotel.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of supervising

Verb

Walton Johnson, who began at the clerk of courts office overseeing its online Self-Help Center, pledged to install kiosks at the Orange County Courthouse and its surrounding branches to cut down on wait times.

— Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2026
Tom Ackerley, Bronte Payne and Kelly McRedmond are overseeing the project for LuckyChap.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of overseeing

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By operating as both a co-working and co-living hub, the nonprofit organization is injecting new energy, creativity, and money into the region.

— Liz Provencher, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
What complicates this topic is the Big Ten and SEC operating on different television cycles.

— Manny Navarro, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of operating

Verb

Epic sued Apple after the iPhone maker removed Fortnite from the App Store, accusing the company of illegally controlling the way apps were distributed and payments were processed on iPhones.

— Jeffrey Kopp, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026
The measure would generally make the date of the federal disaster declaration—not the payment date—controlling in determining eligibility for qualifying wildfire payments.

— Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of controlling

Verb

That gives the new processor a path into systems handling large transaction-processing and data-intensive workloads.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 25 Aug. 2026
Such transformers are physically smaller and lighter than conventional transformers, have modular designs that enable easy upgrades or replacements of parts, and can perform as all-in-one power electronic devices by handling multiple tasks.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of handling

Verb

Requiring personnel to document a legitimate law-enforcement reason and associated case number before conducting a license-plate search.

— Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
After all, OpenAI allowed its AI models to secretly conspire with one another and then escape into the real world, conducting real-world hacking.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2026

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