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administrators

noun

plural of administrator

as in managers

a person who manages or directs something a hospital administrator

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Recent Examples of administrators Questions also remain about the district’s disciplinary investigation, Young’s employment status and what changes, if any, administrators will make to the football program before next season. — Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026 Election administrators and voting rights advocates have been advising voters casting late absentee ballots to use drop boxes or deliver them to polling places in person rather than mail them. — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026 Change starts with higher standards of conduct for everyone, from first-year students to senior administrators and leaders committed to enforcing respectful rules. — Jason Walker, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2026 As Kaspersky notes, Microsoft leaves out that after installing the patches, most administrators must take an additional action described in this 2023 Knowledge Base article. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 3 Nov. 2026 On Tuesday, the company said that practice would no longer be the default option for school administrators and that opting out of AI tools would also mean losing access to Google search. — Barbara Ortutay, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026 The domain-level breach reports let administrators see if any company email addresses appear in data breach lists. — Kim Key, PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2026 Public school district administrators across the county pushed to get the proposition on the ballot, which, if adopted, will add more to county homeowners’ tax burden. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2026 According to a fiscal 2026 salary survey by the Maryland Association of Counties, Walker’s current salary ranks sixth among county administrators and managers in Maryland. — Natalie Jones, Baltimore Sun, 28 Oct. 2026

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The hyperscalers and the bitcoin managers turned data center builders could suffer if the Dems score a landslide.

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2026
Related Stories These awards aim to help emerging talent be discovered by agents, managers, producers, executives and other industry leaders seeking new voices.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of managers

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Chief Executive Masatoshi Kumagai and other GMO executives bowed deeply repeatedly, as is the custom here, at a news conference in Tokyo.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
When OpenAI’s top executives were appointed drivers and private security, Anna would sometimes be spotted in the car with Greg, taking him to work, according to former colleagues.

— Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of executives

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The selection committee voting on the rankings includes six current athletic directors, four former head coaches, two former All-American football players and one former sportswriter.

— Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
By Tuesday afternoon, another two bank directors had been taken into custody, prosecutors said.

— EMILIO SANABRIA, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of directors

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Even under mayoral control in New York City, the city is largely responsible for the public schools’ budget and the mayor appoints not only the chancellor and a majority of school board members but also subordinate superintendents and staff.

— David Bloomfield, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2026
Throughout the process, Wakim said, the McCoys worked with Ricky Dauenhauer — who owned NAE Contracting with his wife, Chantal Dauenhauer — as well as with project superintendents employed by NAE Contracting.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of superintendents

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Currently, the county supervisors can impose a final offer that employees must accept because by law, public safety personnel are not allowed to strike.

— Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
Ford, along with the president of Mars Borough Council, Mike Fleming, and other supervisors, has been working for a year to come up with a plan to benefit both communities.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

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