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verb

administer

work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of

In a sentence

Six example sentences with administer, each labelled with its topic.

  • Two consultants administer the whole rural clinic network, approving rotas and budgets for eleven villages from a single office.

    Medicine

  • The treaty left one commission to administer the shared waterway, with engineers from both countries sitting on the same board.

    Politics

  • As the team passed forty people, someone had to administer payroll, contracts, and insurance instead of writing code all day.

    Startups

  • The court appointed a solicitor to administer the estate, paying debts and dividing what remained among the cousins.

    Law

  • One engineer used to administer all forty servers alone, patching each by hand until the company hired a second.

    Technology

  • A trust company will administer the scholarship fund, investing the capital and approving each year's awards.

    Finance

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