<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the management of any office, business, or organization; direction.</li><li>the function of a political state in exercising its governmental duties.</li><li>the duty or duties of an administrator in exercising the executive functions of the position.</li><li>the management by an administrator of such duties.</li><li>a body of administrators, especially in government.</li><li>Often Administration: the executive branch of the U.S. government during a particular president's term of office.</li><li>the period of service of a governmental administrator or body of governmental administrators.</li><li>any group entrusted with executive or administrative powers: the administration of a college.</li><li>Law: management of a decedent's estate by an executor or administrator or of a trust estate by a trustee.</li><li>an act of dispensing, especially formally: administration of the sacraments.</li><li>supervision of the taking of an oath or the like.</li><li>application, as of a salve or medicine.</li></ul>