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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"It feels sometimes like a job as well, we're filling out spreadsheets more so than playing a game, so a lot of the time it doesn't feel like fun, it feels like admin," Purcell says.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
The songstress may well be attempting to minimize her personal admin before embarking on a very action-packed summer of concert dates.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
She'd turned us in a one-eighty, and she spun around and continued up the path toward 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
"I have asked the admins to remove the message," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Anthropic said it has rolled out features that help IT admins in areas like role-based access, spend controls, usage analytics, audit logging and curated plug-in libraries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Sardonic motivations aside, the unofficial Albertsons admins found themselves officially attached to — and offering comment on — the store’s actual movements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2025
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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