administrative

[ad-min-uh-strey-tiv, -struh-] / ædˈmɪn əˌstreɪ tɪv, -strə- /

ADJECTIVE

involved in managing or using power

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bureaucratic departmental governmental legislative managerial organizational policy-making regulatory supervisory

WEAK

authoritative central commanding controlling deciding decisive directing directive directorial executive governing in charge in control jurisdictional official presiding regulative ruling superintending supervising

Example Sentences

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Voters settled control of roughly 40% of the local governments across England that handle trash collection, pothole filling, low-income housing and various other day-to-day administrative functions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Sweeping out everybody over a certain age is an administrative shortcut dressed up as a solution.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

The disclosure Monday that the Justice Department filed the brief came on the same day that California regulators filed an administrative action against State Farm.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

There would also be greater administrative and legal expenses, and delays.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

A catfish that has had a career as a local leader smells one way, but as soon as he is displaced in an administrative reorganization, he smells differently, and everyone recognizes the loss of standing.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Vocabulary lists containing administrative

Obama's 2013 State of the Union

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State and Local Governments, Sections 1–4

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