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Administrator

noun

Someone who administers a business. Synonym: decision maker.

The party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor.

Someone who manages a government agency or department. Synonym: executive.

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"Administrator" Quotes from Famous Books

... and untroubled times it seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness of being indispensable every administrator finds the chief reward of his labor and efforts. While the sea of history ...

— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... kill you, you duffer! Do you think my father would return to England without thanking the man who was kind to his dear lad? And you would give the whole snap away. Yes; I'll call upon him as Cartwright, the administrator of the late Tudor Crisp's estate. If it were not for that confounded grave and marble cross, I could fix him in ten minutes. Don't frown. I tell you, 'Bishop,' you're not half the ...

— Bunch Grass - A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch • Horace Annesley Vachell

... residents in South-west Africa have forwarded the Administrator a petition for transmission to President Wilson, claiming permission to erect a republic union with the Republic of Germany. The petitioners claim that they not only represent a majority of the white inhabitants, but interpret the views of the wishes of the majority ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156., March 5, 1919 • Various

... president, he has been continuously on the Council of the Royal Society for a great many years, and through his exceptional gifts as an administrator he has rendered it invaluable services. He has rendered similar services to the British Association, to the London Mathematical Society, and to the Royal Institution. We have permission to make the following extract from a letter written by a friend of ...

— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XV., No. 388, June 9, 1883 • Various

... under Turkish rule really meant, and who is the real invader in this war. Here is a very friendly and impartial witness—Sir Charles Elliot—who paints for us the character of the Turk as an "administrator":— ...

— Peace Theories and the Balkan War • Norman Angell

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