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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Suzuki lacked managing and coaching experience when former Angels general manager Perry Minasian hired him in October 2025.

— Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
All four founders will serve as managing partners of Time Zone Capital.

— Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of managing

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Registrations have to be renewed each year, and solar companies are responsible for supervising the salespeople working on their behalf.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
The shape of the work changed, from producing answers to checking them, and from performing tasks to supervising them.

— Fernando Fainzilber, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of supervising

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La Strada had served for 14 years as the Pettis County clerk, overseeing local elections, when Hoskins hired him as the state's election integrity director in January 2025.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Umbrella Entertainment is handling the film’s Australia-New Zealand theatrical release, with Blue Finch Films overseeing global sales.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of overseeing

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In Palembang, the capital city of South Sumatra province, schools from kindergarten to junior high were ordered to start conducting classes online Wednesday under an emergency measure.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
In the 1950s and 1960s, the aerospace industry found eggshells’ resistance to shattering to be a useful model when conducting failure analysis studies of the metal shells used to build airplanes.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026

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