administration

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The Obama administration wants to have its cake and eat it to.

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Quick take

a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of administration gathered in one view.

noun

a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)

noun

the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"

noun

the act of administering medication

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for administration.

noun

a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)

noun

the act of administering medication

noun

the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"

noun

the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"

See also: government, governing, governance

noun

the act of meting out justice according to the law

Example sentences

The Obama administration wants to have its cake and eat it to.

The Obama administration has adopted terror as a method of war - they have become what they set out to fight.

The critical question this raises is this: if, as the administration says, the NSA needs all this data to find terrorists, who gets to say what it's used for or not?

Little known fact about chargebacks: the merchant pays an administration fee, typically $20 to $50.

The administration says the poverty line is around 2200CHF per month for someone living alone [2].You can't really just convert to $ and say it's a lot of money.

-Packing of the wound + local epinephrine administration is currently used.

I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable.

"The Obama administration has thrown better people than her out the airlock because they became political liabilities.

Previous administrations had no need for massive prosecutions, the population behaved itself.

The reaction of the Obama administration has been to order assassinations from a secret list, also killing any civilians nearby.

The administration of administrators who administer the other administers who supervise the people in charge of those who actually get real work done cannot make any concessions to reality.

So, [Clapper] said, he was continuing to assert the state\n secrets privilege, which allows the government to seek \n to block information from being used in court even if \n that means the case must be dismissed.\n\nIt's almost funny to see the administration's hypocrisy on full display.

I hope she hasn't ever donated to any disagreeable referendum campaigns.........or ever been a core member of an administration that left us with two disastrous wars, an offshore gulag, the greatest economic disaster in 70 years, a record of legitimizing torture, a decline in prestige on the world stage.