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Administrator

Definitions: Administrator

Administrator

Noun

1. 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)



Specialty Definitions: Administrator

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonyms: Administrator

Synonyms: decision maker (n), executive (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Administrator

English words defined with "administrator": academic administrator, administratively, Administratorship, Administratrix, advisory boardcommissionerDative executor, dean, DevastavitEdward Winslow, executor-heir relationinspectletters of administration, LogothetePeter Stuyvesant, Petrus Stuyvesant, planning board, provostRaffles, registrarSecretary General, Sir Thomas Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, StuyvesantvisitWinslow. (references)
Specialty definitions using "administrator": admin, administration ad litem, administration durante absentia, administration durante animi vitio, administration durante dementia, administration pendente absentia, Administrative Capability, administrative distance, 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 pendente absentia, ADMINISTRATOR, HEALTH CARE FACILITY, ALCOHOL-AND-DRUG-ABUSE-ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR, Alpha GeekBOFHclaims administrator, Conditional Registration, CONTRACT ADMINISTRATOR, COURT ADMINISTRATORdata bank administrator, data base administrator, DATA BASE DESIGN ANALYST, DBA, defaulting administrator, defaulting executor, Dependency Override, DIRECTOR, DENTAL SERVICES, DIRECTOR, OUTPATIENT SERVICES, DIRECTOR, SPEECH-AND-HEARING, diskless workstation, domiciliary executor, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocolemployee relations administrator, executory debtsFinancial Aid Administratorgrant ad colligenda bona, grant ad colligenda bona defuncti, grant ad colligendum, grant ad colligendum bona defunctiHISTORIC-SITE ADMINISTRATOR, hospital administratorMAINTENANCE WORKER, MUNICIPAL, MEDICAL RECORD TECHNICIAN, MEDICAL-RECORD ADMINISTRATORNabob', nonattainment areapersonnel administrator, plea of plene administravit, plea of plene administravit praeter, plene administravit, plene administravit praeter, portfolio administrator, Primary Drinking Water RegulationRADIOLOGY ADMINISTRATOR, REGULATORY ADMINISTRATOR, REVENUE-SETTLEMENTS ADMINISTRATOR, rulesScience Advisory Board, Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool, sysadmin, system administration, system administrator, system operatortape monkey, TEACHER, VISUALLY IMPAIRED, TRAFFIC-SAFETY ADMINISTRATOR, training administratorURL redirectionVirtual LAN, virtual pathwage and salary administrator. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Administrator" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (administrator, bailiff, bursar, manager, procurator), Hawaiian (administrator), Indonesian (manager of an estate), Romanian (administrator, bailiff, director, economist, governor, housekeeper, janitor, land agent, manager, master, receiver, reeve, steward, suitor, superintendent, trustee, warden), Serbo-Croatian (administrator, executive).

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Modern Usage: Administrator

DomainUsage

Screenplays

No, no, no. I mean, I, I, I'm the administrator of the tontine. (The Wrong Box; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Lloyd Osbourne)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Administrator

DomainTitle

Books

  • Linux for Windows Administrators (Mark Minasi Windows Administrator Library) (reference)

  • Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 9.0 Study Guide (Exams 310-014 & 310-015) (reference)

  • DB2 Version 2 Planning Guide for Database Administrator (reference)

  • The Database Administrator (Business Data Processing, a Wiley Series) (reference)

  • Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 8 Operating Environment Study Guide (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Administrator

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Administrator

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Administrator

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Administrator

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Administrator

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6869,663

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Administrator

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.

Hyphenated Usage

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Administrator

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

administrator

870

remote administrator

375

third party administrator

360

network administrator

134

system administrator

115

administrator plesk server

87

database administrator

86

texas association of school administrator

80

administrator password

63

association of legal administrator

63

school administrator

60

administrator national vision

59

nursing home administrator

53

american association of school administrator

40

administrator password recover

37

administrator council supervisor

34

contract administrator

33

security administrator

33

illinois association of school administrator

29

zenith administrator

29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Administrator

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

опекун (conservator, curator, custodian, trustee, tutor), должностное лицо (functionary, offical, office-bearer, officeholder, officer, official, placeholder, place-holder, placeman). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

administrator (executive), upravitelj (governor, manager, provost). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

administrador (bailee, bailiff, manager, steward, trustee), gerente (director, executive, manager, managing, office manager). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

administratör (manager), förvaltare (bailiff, factor, guardian, manager, steward, trustee, trustees). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

управитель (grave, husband), службова особа (office bearer, office holder, officer, official), опікун (committee, curator, custodian, fiduciary, trustee), адміністратор. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người quản lý người cầm quyền h nh chính. (various references)

   

Zulu

  

imeneja, ilimeneja. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Administrator

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

agrig. (various references)

Akkadian3000 BCE-Modern

abarakku. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Administrator

Derivations

Words beginning with "administrator": administrators. (additional references)

Words ending with "administrator": superadministrator. (additional references)

Words containing "administrator": superadministrators. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Administrator"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "administrator" (pronounced udmi"nustrā'ter)
7-u s t r ā' t erillustrator.
6-s t r ā' t erdemonstrator.
5-t r ā' t erarbitrator, infiltrator, perpetrator.
4-r ā' t erintegrator.
3-ā' t eraccelerator, 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.

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Anagrams: Administrator

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Administrator


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 64 6D 69 6E 69 73 74 72 61 74 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    --    ..    -.    ..    ...    -    .-.    .-    -    ---    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100100 01101101 01101001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#97 &#116 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 006D 0069 006E 0069 0073 0074 0072 0061 0074 006F 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35707975807585868467868184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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