verb
administrate
ad-MIN-ih-strayt/ædmˈɪnɪstrˌeɪt/
To manage the affairs of an organization.
The manager administrates the community center by assigning tasks to colleagues.
Etymology
The underlying idea of serving developed into managing affairs on someone else's behalf. Administrate may come directly from a Latin participle or be a back-formation from administrator or administration.
In context
we still need to fund these things we still need to administrate minister this and we still need to evaluate
More examples
- She was hired to administrate the regional training program.
- The trust was administrated by an independent board.
- He spends most mornings administrating the volunteer network.
Forms
administrate · administrates · administrated · administrating
administration noun — The management of an organization or system.
Similar words
- administer
- The more usual verb for managing official operations.
- manage
- Broader and less formal, covering many kinds of oversight.