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Six example sentences with administrative, each labelled with its topic.
Most of the delay was administrative: three offices had to stamp the same form before the permit moved.
Politics
The hospital cut administrative work by merging four intake forms into one screen the nurses actually use.
Medicine
Two founders spent half of every week on administrative tasks until they hired someone to run payroll and filings.
Startups
Administrative law governs how agencies make rules, and a permit denied without a hearing can be overturned on that ground alone.
Law
Researchers report spending nearly half their week on administrative work, from grant reports to equipment purchase forms.
Science
The merger doubled the administrative headcount, and a year later the two payroll systems still had not been combined.
Business
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