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administrator

[ad-min-uh-stray-ter] / ædˈmɪn əˌstreɪ tər /


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The breach had also brought scrutiny to Town Hall’s longstanding reliance on a single individual serving simultaneously as chief financial officer, finance director and town administrator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

“I was an administrator for 18 years, so it had been a while since I was consistently in the classroom. Now I feel like I’m in the classroom,” Jerry said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2026

In an accompanying editorial, Robert M. Vincent, a former associate administrator for the U.S.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

The spidey senses of a Monterey school administrator started tingling when an invoice the food services director submitted for eggs, bacon and potatoes at Costco came with an exorbitant price tag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Protocol for telling an employee about their End Day involves an administrator calling the Decker into their office “for a meeting.”

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

The administrators running what is left of 777 expect much of creditors’ recovery to come from litigation after bankruptcy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

The letter was signed by school district members, unions representing thousands of teachers, school aides and administrators, as well as San Diego Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

Most were collected by two colonial administrators who were anthropologists.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

In high school, he criticized administrators for allowing Spanish-language announcements and once reportedly jumped into a girls’ track race in an apparent attempt to prove the athletic superiority of men.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026

Nigro had told us that whenever prison administrators wanted to know what was really going on in a prison, what the mood of the inmates was, they asked the gallery officers.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover


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