as in manager
a person who manages or directs something
a hospital administrator
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Recent Examples of administrator
Johnston’s not the only outgoing member within the county administrator’s office.
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Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
29 June 2026
Letlow previously worked in higher education as a university administrator and was a finalist for University of Louisiana at Monroe president.
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Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
28 June 2026
Kennedy-Dixon, who died in 2018, was a player and longtime administrator at Clemson.
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ABC News,
27 June 2026
The upshot of Yale’s report, which is by far the most self-critical of the three, is that administrators bear much of the responsibility for higher education’s current predicament.
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Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2026
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Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
29 June 2026
Letlow previously worked in higher education as a university administrator and was a finalist for University of Louisiana at Monroe president.
—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
28 June 2026
Kennedy-Dixon, who died in 2018, was a player and longtime administrator at Clemson.
—
ABC News,
27 June 2026
The upshot of Yale’s report, which is by far the most self-critical of the three, is that administrators bear much of the responsibility for higher education’s current predicament.
—
Rose Horowitch,
The Atlantic,
27 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for administrator
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Kelce played a bully of a restaurant manager who fires a busboy (played by Bad Bunny).
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Offers three-credit-bureau monitoring, VPN, dark web monitoring, password manager, email aliases and instant credit lock.
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The billionaire executive spent more than $110 million of his own money to win the nomination in one of the most brutal Republican primaries in modern Georgia history for the chance to take on Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in November.
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On Tuesday night, the New York Post reported that the woman had been identified as Angie Baez, a 40-year-old financial industry executive.
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The irony is that in not trying to pass muster with more conservative theatergoers (and their fastidious institutional guardians), playwrights have been winning over not just critics but also formerly squeamish artistic directors and perennially nervous Broadway producers.
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André Duvenhage, research director at South Africa’s North-West University, said migrants are often hired because employers see them as willing to work for lower wages and, as non-citizens, they are typically not protected by as many labor protections.
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Likewise, the board has approved several permanent replacements selected by Chait for top administrators who are leaving the district, including the departing deputy superintendent of instruction, Karla Estrada.
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Players can make choices — answer the call from Claire (Sink), go out into the hallway, try and get in touch with your superintendent to figure out what’s going on — and depending on those decisions, the game will play out differently.
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All the spending on the national events angers one supervisor at a Florida airport.
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For this story, a Yolo County spokesperson agreed to an interview with CBS News Sacramento on the grand jury's findings and the board of supervisors' response.
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“Administrator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/administrator. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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