administrate
Americanverb (used with object)
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administrates,
present (3rd person singular)
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administrated,
past participle, past
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administrating
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
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Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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administratesimple
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administratessimple
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have administratedperfect
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has administratedperfect
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am administratingprogressive
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are administratingprogressive
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is administratingprogressive
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have been administratingperfect progressive
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has been administratingperfect progressive
Past
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administratedsimple
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had administratedperfect
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was administratingprogressive
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were administratingprogressive
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had been administratingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of administrate
1630–40; < Latin administrātus, past participle of administrāre to administer; see -ate 1
Explanation
To administrate is to manage or run something. People who administrate are in charge. An administrator is someone in charge of something, like the president of a college. To administrate is to run something, the way a CEO runs a company. Administrating means making major decisions, hiring and firing people, and taking credit and blame for what a business or organization does. It can help you remember what this word means if you remember that the current members of the executive branch of the U.S. are called the administration.
Vocabulary lists containing administrate
Example Sentences
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Thao first placed Armstrong on paid administrate leave in January to review investigations by the department’s federal monitor that found the police chief responsible for gross dereliction of duty in the sergeant’s misconduct cases.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Mr Igathe was the county's deputy governor under Mike Sonko, but resigned less than a year after taking office saying he had failed to earn the governor's trust to administrate.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2022
The way to think of a magistrate is as the Romans meant it: one empowered to administrate.
From Fox News ● Aug. 6, 2020
“You cannot recruit, you cannot train, you cannot retain, and you cannot administrate, ” he said.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2016
Let us observe here, if the Word of God continue in this land, in the purity thereof, and the sacraments be rightly administrate, the people of God will then multiply exceedingly here.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by James Kerr
"It has been challenging for us," said Tys, director of a management consulting firm who in his spare time administrates at the school along with three others while a head teacher oversees academic matters.
From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2022
As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which administrates PISA, noted last year, the United States—with its fairly unique system of local control—shows “significant performance variability” between states.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2017
This year has already seen an unprecedented level of litigation related to the election and the procedures by which the election will be administrated.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2024
Orally administrated probiotics have therefore been widely used to alleviate symptoms.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
The working group meeting is being held in Srinagar, the summer capital of the federally administrated territory, from Monday to Wednesday.
From BBC ● May 22, 2023
By the third century BCE, this system was being administrated by a combination of public assemblies, elected officials, and the Senate.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
At this moment, Gentle Annie re-entered with the eau de vie; and Tresco, who was bustling importantly about his patient, administrated the restorative dexterously to the unconscious digger, and then awaited results.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
It would take a bit of administrating, just to make sure the injury is absolutely genuine.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
Instead, Oz will take over one of the most sprawling bureaucracies within HHS, administrating Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2024
Some people are seen administrating CPR to injured people on the pavement while others shout for help above blaring dance music.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2022
Fire authorities were administrating CPR to at least 50 people in the Itaewon district as of 11:30 p.m.
From Reuters ● Oct. 29, 2022
But the mother was wise, and aware of the clanger, kept in her own hands the administrating of the medicine.
From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald
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