administrations

noun

plural of administration
1
as in governments
lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation) the fair and just administration of the U.S. territories

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2
as in managements
the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something administration of the funds was left in the hands of a committee

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Recent Examples of administrations Institutionalizing those limits would help prevent future administrations from using civil-rights enforcement to impose political orthodoxy. — Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026 But the war powers resolution has largely been ignored by presidents of both parties, with administrations sidestepping its requirements. — Barbara Sprunt, NPR, 7 Nov. 2026 Young served in the Civil Rights office herself, across the administrations of five presidents. — Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026 While past administrations have tried — and failed — to resolve the issue, Mamdani and his top aides have proposed their own ideas to guarantee on-time payments once and for all. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026 Heumann continued her activism, serving in the Clinton and Obama administrations. — Barry Levitt, Time, 6 Nov. 2026 Successive administrations failed to heed Morgenthau’s warnings and instead plunged the United States deeper into the war. — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2026 Over the years, the vice president criticized other administrations for getting entangled in the Middle East -- as did Trump -- but has since supported the conflict in Iran. — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2026 Doe’s case demonstrates just how complex Title IX cases are, even under the more protective policies afforded to accusers by past presidential administrations. — Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for administrations
  1. governments
  2. managements
  3. rules
  4. operations
  5. regimes
  6. supervisions
  7. controls
  8. oversights
Noun
  • Her predecessors traditionally championed charitable causes, but the current occupant of the East Wing has plunged into something resembling actual diplomacy, persuading two governments at war to cooperate.
    — Anna Rahmanan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2026
  • National governments will already be looking at their aviation authority regulations and frameworks and there will be discussions at the European and global level, John Edwards, senior consultant at Gates Aviation in London, said by phone.
    — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of governments
Noun
  • And very few managements do much thinking or talking about opportunity costs.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2026
  • These are different eras, and the respective managements are no longer the same, but something about this feels off.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2026
Definition of managements
Noun
  • Jaylen Brown has an 18th-century harp sitting in his living room, and that harp rules.
    — Rembert Browne, Architectural Digest, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Even Disneyland has changed the rules around who can use the fast lanes, and that’s had really weird implications.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of rules
Noun
  • These capabilities can support military operations that depend on information gathered beyond Earth’s atmosphere.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • This engine is optimized for in-space operations and uses liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellants.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of operations
Noun
  • But questions remain over the severity of the conditions to which ADOR subjected NewJeans—a battery of brutal training regimes and unusually strict personal terms that are laid out in a new report from The New York Times.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Because online retailers usually sell across state lines and often internationally, a single try-on feature can be governed by several privacy regimes at once.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of regimes
Noun
  • This overreach and weaponization of the government manifested especially clearly in burdensome regulations and guidance; in extensive and onerous supervisions; in investigations and cases, frequently leading to crushing penalties and injunctive terms unrelated to actual harm.
    — Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 21 Jan. 2026
Definition of supervisions
Noun
  • The president previously greenlit the sale of Nvidia chips to Chinese firms despite a bipartisan push for stricter export controls.
    — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
  • But their preferred answers — price controls, public ownership, more spending and more regulations — would worsen those problems.
    — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of controls
Noun
  • The search only really got underway after two weeks, with oversights and mistakes that could not be undone.
    — Léo Keler, The Dial, 27 Oct. 2026
  • These slights and oversights have continued for decades, until now.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of oversights

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“Administrations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/administrations. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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