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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for administrating
  1. managing
  2. supervising
  3. overseeing
  4. operating
  5. controlling
  6. handling
  7. regulating
  8. conducting
Verb
  • However, their power requirements create additional challenges for facilities already managing substantial electricity consumption.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • But Southeast Asian coordination may happen without ASEAN’s guidance, argues Hans Vriens, co-founder and managing partner of government affairs consultancy Vriens & Partners.
    — Sam Beltran, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of managing
Verb
  • His daughter gradually took over supervising much of the team's management and became CEO in August 1998 after her father was elected commissioner.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Children under 12 must be accompanied by a supervising companion who is at least 14 years old.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of supervising
Verb
  • Bass has been forcing Raman to explain her own role in overseeing the city’s troubled homelessness response.
    — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In 2015, Tan-Gillespie joined KFC South Pacific, overseeing marketing in Australia and New Zealand.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of overseeing
Verb
  • Safety begins with owners and boards and extends to every employee operating an attraction.
    — Dennis Speigel, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
  • That is how banks have spent the past two weeks finding agents operating inside active customer accounts.
    — Dvir Ginzburg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of operating
Verb
  • The Houthis ramped up their advance on Taiz last month, after a lightning-fast capture of the port city of Mokha, an area about 130 kilometers (80 miles) away that is vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • But Meta’s new SEC filing that posted this week shows that’s in part because of the key difference between owning a company and controlling it.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of controlling
Verb
  • Employee in cafe area wearing wrist jewelry while handling food.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • One, published in Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, described a chef who may have contracted psittacosis through handling poultry.
    — Rachel Melegrito, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of handling
Verb
  • In the absence of a federal law regulating them, the responsibility falls to local governments, said Ridout, who estimates that about 30 states have some type of rule or requirement regarding AI in political campaigns.
    — Anagilmara Vílchez, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The agency charged with regulating Colorado’s first-in-the-nation legal recreational marijuana market potentially put consumers at risk of using contaminated products, a new state audit found.
    — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of regulating
Verb
  • Testing these factors virtually can help engineers identify potential problems before conducting physical trials on the factory floor.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Along with the prospect of ICE agents conducting immigration enforcement, election officials have also expressed concern that the federal government might try other ways to disrupt polling places, citing voter fraud allegations as a premise.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of conducting

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