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Definitions: Administrator |
AdministratorNoun1. Someone who administers a business. 2. The party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor. 3. Someone who manages a government agency or department. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "administrator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1702. (references) |
Etymology: Administrator \Ad*min`is*tra"tor\, noun. [Latin expression]. (Websters 1913) |
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Computing | A person in contact with the Target of Evaluation who is responsible for maintaining its operational capability. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Manager, one capable of organizing, one who performs official or directing duties. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: AdministratorSynonyms: decision maker (n), executive (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | No, no, no. I mean, I, I, I'm the administrator of the tontine. (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne) | |
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Dr. Gerberding is the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Dr. Satcher was formerly Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).Credit: CDC. | |
![]() | Astronaut Administrator Richard Truly.Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Paine Appointed Administrator.Credit: NASA. |
![]() | H. Arnold Karo Director of Coast and Geodetic Survey 1955-1965 Deputy Administrator of ESSA with rank of Vice-Admiral 1965-1966.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Pat Kurkul, the NE Regional Administrator, passes the herring to volunteers who then place the fish in trucks waiting to transport them past the dams and to their spawning grounds.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Penny Dalton, former Assistant Administrator for NOAA Fisheries, cleans trash and debris from the rip rap around the perimeter of the wetlands at Ft McHenry.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Dr. D. James Baker, Administrator of NOAA, visiting the sanctuary.Credit: Sanctuaries. |
![]() | Penny DeFino was recognized as one of 18 outstanding Department of Defense employees with disabilities recently. DeFino works as a Unix system administrator for the Defense Information Systems Agency at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (Courtesy pho. | ![]() | Maintaining a viable farming enterprise is difficult in urban areas like Wake County can be difficult. Rick Bailey, Wake SWCD Administrator discusses soil conservation options with a local tobacco farmer.Credit: Bob Nichols. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. |
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Business | Since the beginning of 1999, Poland has been adapting to a new healthcare system in which the functions of payer, provider and administrator have been separated. (references) | |
The Administrador del Mercado Mayorista AMM (Wholesale Market Administrator) is in charge of a private, non-profit entity called the Mercado Mayorista (Wholesale Market). (references) | ||
These government entities set up their own programs and formulate their needs to the Administrator of water resources in Morocco, which is a Division of the Ministry of Equipment (Direction de l'Hydraulique). (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Mozambique | Organizers simply are required to inform the district administrator of the planned demonstration rather than seek approval in advance from police and civil authorities. (references) |
Russia | In March Nizhniy Novgorod's regional head administrator Sergey Vasin enlisted the aid of local police to turn off the local television transmitter, because he claimed that he had been denied legally mandated access to airwaves during his campaign. (references) | |
Korea | Seoul Archbishop Nicholas Jin-Suk Cheong, appointed by the Pope as Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang, was quoted in July 2000 as stating that while there were 50 priests in the country in the 1940's, it is not known if they are still alive today. (references) | |
Economic History | Micronesia | The FSM public sector plays a central role in the economy as the administrator of the Compact money. (references) |
Swaziland | For local administration Swaziland is divided into four regions each with an administrator appointed by the king. (references) | |
Pakistan | Muhammad Zia ul-Haq became Chief Martial Law Administrator and promised to hold new elections within three months. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burundi | No action was taken against the administrator or the merchants by year's end. (references) |
Kazakhstan | There were no reports of a formal investigation; however, the prison administrator was fired as a result of the protest. (references) | |
Tunisia | The Government closed the League's headquarters in November 2000 and replaced its board with an administrator pending a January hearing. (references) | |
Political Economy | East Timor | The ETPA Cabinet was selected in consultation with the UNTAET Administrator and the newly elected Constituent Assembly. (references) |
Pakistan | The leadership of the western part of Pakistan was handed over to Z. A. Bhutto, who became President and first civilian chief martial law administrator. (references) | |
East Timor | UNTAET continued to govern East Timor and the East Timor Transitional Administration (ETTA), and the National Council (NC) advised the Transitional Administrator throughout most of the year. (references) | |
Political Rights | East Timor | The cabinet was selected in consultation with the U.N. Transitional Administrator and the newly elected Constituent Assembly. (references) |
East Timor | The Constitution originally was scheduled for completion on December 15; however, the UNTAET Administrator granted the Constituent Assembly a 30-day extension. (references) | |
East Timor | UNTAET, led by Transitional Administrator Sergio de Mello, is to retain ultimate executive authority on behalf of the U.N. Security Council until East Timor's full independence, scheduled for May 20, 2002. Presidential elections are scheduled for April 14, 2002. The Constituent Assembly elected on August 30 consists of 88 members. (references) | |
Trade | Croatia | If at any time potential losses are estimated to be larger than the bank's liable capital, the CNB can impose an administrator or initiate bankruptcy proceedings. (references) |
Ecuador | In the case of special projects, the time period may be extended once for up to six months by presenting an extension request to the Customs District Administrator. (references) | |
Women | Kenya | Moreover, a widow cannot be the sole administrator of her husband's estate unless she has her children's consent. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Administrator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Administrator" is used about 686 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 686 | 9,663 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "administrator": academic administrator ♦ administrator ad colligenda bona ♦ administrator ad colligenda bona defuncti ♦ administrator ad colligendum ♦ administrator ad colligendum bona defuncti ♦ administrator durante absentia ♦ administrator durante animi vitio ♦ administrator durante dementia ♦ administrator durante minore aetate ♦ administrator durante minoritate administratoris ♦ administrator of an estate ♦ administrator pendente absentia ♦ business administrator ♦ data bank administrator ♦ data base administrator ♦ database administrator ♦ defaulting administrator ♦ domestic administrator ♦ domiciliary administrator ♦ hospital administrator ♦ local administrator ♦ network administrator ♦ system administrator. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "administrator": administrator-cum-personal, administrator-dominated, administrator-general. | |
Ending with "administrator": priest-administrator. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "administrator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | administrateur (manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | administrator (bailiff, bursar, manager, procurator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مدير (chief, director, executive, gaffer, landlord, manager, patron, provost, reeve), المصفي, المدير المنتدب, المدير رجل الإدارة, شخص مكلف من قبل الحكومة بتصفية أملاك متوفي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | управител на имот (land agent), управител (director, governor, intendant, manager, reeve, ruler, steward, super, superintendent, warden), ръководител (boss, director, instructor, leader, manager, mastermind, pilot, principal, supervisor), администратор (manager, reception clerk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 管理" (manager), 管理员 (janitor, Overseer, registrar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | správce (bailiff, curator, keeper, manager, rector, superintendent, warden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | administrator, tjenestemand i høj stilling, Fuldmægtig (chief clerk, head clerk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Administrateur (bursar, manager), beheerder (custodian, executive director, manager, member of the board of directors, security custodian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | administristo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uskottu mies (fiduciary, guardian, trustee), holhooja (guardian, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | administrateur (ADMIN, admin manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Verwalter (bailiff, bursar, caretaker, custodian, manager, manciple, server, steward, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Yπάλληλος διοικήσεως, εκκαθαριστήσ (liquidator), διαχειριστήσ (controller, manager, operator), διαχειριστής (bailiff, manager, manipulator, trustee, working plans officer), διοικητικός υπάλληλος,διοικητικό στέλεχος, διοικητήσ (commandant, commander). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | administronjës (manager), administrator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ "לן, מ "ל (boss, director, executive, manager), אמרכל (officer, superintendent, treasurer), אפיטרופוס (custodian, executor, procurator, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ügyintéző (clerk, official in charge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penguasa (manager, one in authority, ruler), penata praja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Amministratore (bailiff, churchwarden, curator, director, executive director, governor, manager, member of the board of directors, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 運営者 (manager), 管財人 (receiver, trustee), 執" (administration, government, governor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しっせい (administration, correction, government, governor, misgovernment, point out errors, wet), う"えいしゃ (manager), か"ざいに" (receiver, trustee). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 행 관 (executive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheckter (executive, executor), reireyder (controller, manager, server). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | atministradó (manager). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | administratoray Administrador (assignee, comptroller, conservator, controller, director, dispeople, executive director, factor, fallow deer, hind, manager, manciple, member of the board of directors, officer, overseer, ruler, steward, trustee, warden), gerente (authority, factor, manager, ruler, store assistant). (various references) administrator (bailiff, director, economist, governor, housekeeper, janitor, land agent, manager, master, receiver, reeve, steward, suitor, superintendent, trustee, warden), gestionar, executor testamentar (executor), director (curator, directing, director, executive, governor, guiding, headmaster, manager, master, principal, rector, steering, superior, warden). (various references) опекун (conservator, curator, custodian, trustee, tutor), должностное лицо (functionary, offical, office-bearer, officeholder, officer, official, placeholder, place-holder, placeman). (various references) administrator (executive), upravitelj (governor, manager, provost). (various references) administrador (bailee, bailiff, manager, steward, trustee), gerente (director, executive, manager, managing, office manager). (various references) administratör (manager), förvaltare (bailiff, factor, guardian, manager, steward, trustee, trustees). (various references) yönetici (boss, controller, director, executive, governor, head, headman, intendant, manager, overseer, ruler, supervisor), vekil (alternate, assignee, attorney, commissary, commissioner, delegate, deputy, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, minister, nominee, proxy, representative, stand in, substitute, supply, surrogate, vicar, vice, vice gerent), vasi (conservator, custodian, Guardian, tutelar, tutelary, tutor), müdür (clerk, director, gaffer, governor, guv, guvnor, head, intendant, manager, provost, supervisor, vice president, warden), idareci (conductor, curator, director, executive, housekeeper, intendant, manager, manipulator, ruler). (various references) управитель (grave, husband), службова особа (office bearer, office holder, officer, official), опікун (committee, curator, custodian, fiduciary, trustee), адміністратор. (various references) người quản lý người cầm quyền h nh chính. (various references) imeneja, ilimeneja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | agrig. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | abarakku. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "administrator": administrators. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "administrator": superadministrator. (additional references) | |
Words containing "administrator": superadministrators. (additional references) | |
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"Administrator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Administator, administrater, administratrix, administratum, adminstrator. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "administrator" (pronounced udmi"nustrā'ter) |
| 7 | -u s t r ā' t er | illustrator. |
| 6 | -s t r ā' t er | demonstrator. |
| 5 | -t r ā' t er | arbitrator, infiltrator, perpetrator. |
| 4 | -r ā' t er | integrator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accelerator, accumulator, activator, actuator, agitator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, aviator, calculator, carburetor, cogenerator, collaborator, commentator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, decorator, defibrillator, denominator, detonator, educator, elevator, escalator, evaporator, excavator, exterminator, fabricator, facilitator, generator, gladiator, illuminator, imitator, incinerator, incubator, indicator, innovator, instigator, insulator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, legislator, liquidator, litigator, locator, manipulator, mediator, Moderator, modulator, navigator, negotiator, operator, originator, oscillator, percolator, radiator, refrigerator, regulator, renovator, respirator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, syndicator, Terminator, ventilator, violator. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-i-m-n-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: admirations. | |
-3 letters: admiration, distrainor, radiations, staminodia, traditions. | |
-4 letters: anatomist, animators, antiatoms, distraint, dramatist, imitators, intromits, irritants, mandators, nitrators, radiation, radiators, rainstorm, sanitoria, satiation, striation, tamarinds, tarantism, tradition, tramroads, trimarans. | |
-5 letters: animator, antiatom, antidora, antiriot, arnattos, diatrons, dioramas, distrain, distrait, imitator, intarsia, intrados, introits, intromit, irritant, madronas, manatoid, mandator, marranos, martians, martinis, matadors, mattoids, midirons, miradors, mistrain, monardas, mordants, nitrator, ostinati, radiants, radiator, radioman, rosarian, saintdom, sartorii, stromata, strontia, tamarind, tamarins, titanias, titanism, traditor, traitors, tramroad, transmit, triadism, trimaran, tritomas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-i-m-n-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: administrators. | |
+5 letters: superadministrator. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 64 6D 69 6E 69 73 74 72 61 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. -- .. -. .. ... - .-. .- - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100100 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A d m i n i s t r a t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0064 006D 0069 006E 0069 0073 0074 0072 0061 0074 006F 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35707975807585868467868184 |
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