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ADMINISTRATOR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who manages a government agency or department

Synonyms:

administrator; executive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("administrator" is a kind of...):

chief; head; top dog (a person who is in charge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administrator"):

commissioner (a government administrator)

DCI; Director of Central Intelligence (the head of the United States Intelligence Community and director of the Central Intelligence Agency)

prefect (a chief officer or chief magistrate)

Secretary General (a person who is a chief administrator (as of the United Nations))

triumvir (one of a group of three sharing public administration or civil authority especially in ancient Rome)

Instance hyponyms:

Raffles; Sir Thomas Raffles; Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (British colonial administrator who founded Singapore (1781-1826))

Peter Stuyvesant; Petrus Stuyvesant; Stuyvesant (the last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672))

Derivation:

administrate (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("administrator" is a kind of...):

fiduciary (a person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary)

Derivation:

administrate (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone who administers a business

Synonyms:

administrator; decision maker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("administrator" is a kind of...):

chief; head; top dog (a person who is in charge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administrator"):

academic administrator (an administrator in a college or university)

director; manager; managing director (someone who controls resources and expenditures)

executive; executive director (a person responsible for the administration of a business)

hosteller; hotel manager; hotelier; hotelkeeper; hotelman (an owner or manager of hotels)

land agent (a person who administers a landed estate)

security director (head of a private security force working for a business or industry)

vice chancellor (a deputy or assistant to someone bearing the title of chancellor)

Derivation:

administrate (work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of)

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