Other forms: administrators
An administrator is a person who runs the day-to-day paperwork of an organisation. A school administrator, systems administrator, the practice administrator.
It covers everything from the office that keeps a school running to the systems administrator who keeps a network alive — a sysadmin, which is a quite different job under the same word. In insolvency, administrators are appointed to run a failing company and try to rescue it, which is what going into administration means. Note administer, administrative, admin.
1nounadministratorA person who runs the day-to-day paperwork.
“The school administrator handles the timetables, the registers and letters to parents.”
2nounappointedSomebody appointed to run a failing company.
“When the airline went bust, administrators were brought in to sell off its planes.”
administrator is a person who manages.
Latin administrator is one who attends or manages, from ad plus ministrare, to serve. Minister, ministry and minor come from the same serving — a minister is literally a lesser servant.
Latin
administrātor
English, today
administrator
Borrowed from Latin administrātor. Latin administrātor literally “he that is near to attend”. a doublet of administrador.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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