administrator

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun someone who administers a business
noun the party appointed by a probate court to distribute the estate of someone who dies without a will or without naming an executor
noun someone who manages a government agency or department

Borrowed from Latin administrātor (literally “he that is near to attend”). Doublet of administrador.

YOU ARE THE SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
He was an inflexible administrator. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Price, Charles Jack^{D} Administrator, Parkland Vol. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission

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