public administrator
Americannoun
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an official of a city, county, or state government.
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a person appointed to administer the estate of a deceased person, especially during the period when a will is being contested.
Example Sentences
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The state Medicaid agency filed probate through a public administrator and made moves to sell the house.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Telles lost his primary for a second term as public administrator in 2022 after German's stories were published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal ahead of the election.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024
Telles’ elected term as Clark County public administrator was cut short following his arrest less than a week after German’s death.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
Telles, 45, became Clark County public administrator in 2019 and lost his Democratic party primary in June, about a month after articles by German documented “turmoil and internal dissension” in Telles’ office.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
No editor, no political writer, and no public administrator achieved enough good reputation to preserve his memory for twenty years.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
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