Word Meaning

administer definition and meaning

v. t. 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.
v. t. To dispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament.
v. t. To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.
v. t. To tender, as an oath.
v. t. To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
v. i. To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister.
v. i. To perform the office of administrator; to act officially; as, A administers upon the estate of B.
n. Administrator.

Crossword clues for administer

- Deal out (justice)
- Dispense
- Give (treatment)
- Govern
- Manage
- Manage and be responsible for the running of
- Manage commercial clergyman
- Manage commercial parson
- Manage mine’s Triad characters
- Manage to get changed inside tram
- Notice politician run
- Supervise clergyman in charge of advertising