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Definition of Administer
Administer

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.

To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.

To tender, as an oath.

To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.

To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.

Administrator.

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Administer Quotations

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Adolf Hitler

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann

Administer Translations

administer in Dutch is besturen, administreren, beheren
administer in French is administrer
administer in German is verwalten, administrieren, verwalte, verwalten
administer in Italian is amministrare
administer in Norwegian is forvalte, styre
administer in Portuguese is administre
administer in Spanish is administrar

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