admin
noun
administration; administrative work.
admin
1 American
[ad-min, ad-min]
/ ædˈmɪn, ˈæd mɪn /
noun
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admins
plural
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administration; administrative work.
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an administrative assistant.
My admin will call you back with that information later today.
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an administrator.
government admins.
adjective
admin.
2
American
abbreviation
admin
British
/ ˈædmɪn /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of admin
By shortening
Example Sentences
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The massive success of “Station Eleven” allowed her to quit her admin job to pursue the life of a full-time novelist and television writer, a move she says was terrifying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The admin emails to which Microsoft sent those notifications tend to get slammed with junk from spammers, leading software developers to recommend ignoring those inboxes altogether.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
KAMPALA, Uganda—An Ebola response team ran into an unexpected obstacle when they arrived to spray a roadside market with disinfectant a couple of weeks ago: the admin for a local WhatsApp group.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
But rising production and admin costs have led her to retire this year.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
Cray-Cray drove him and his lawyer up to the admin building.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
Politico called the 19th the “the start-up scoring all the Biden admin. interviews,” noting that it has also interviewed prominent Republican women.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2021
Chinese hacking: Obama admin. signals it will elevate issue with Beijing The U.S. says it will raise its opposition to hacking within the already-complicated U.S.-China relationship.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2013
Career included personnel admin.; teaching; writing; research; computer programming; and budget analysis.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2010
See also admin. of goods, granted to his sister Alice Buklond and his nephew John, son of Sir John.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
He and a team of admins take the role seriously, evicting inactive members—and those who break the rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
There, admins share information about “cryptic clinics” and what the process involves.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2024
Website owners and admins who want to block future crawling should add an entry to their site’s robots.txt file and tell it to “Disallow: /”.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
Andrea Vincent, an admin for a Facebook pregnancy support group, told Salon as admins they often find themselves having to monitor misinformation in the group.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2023
“Maybe a private group to reach out to people? And we can make ourselves admins so that we can approve every person who is invited. Just to make sure.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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