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ADMINISTRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does administrate mean? 

ADMINISTRATE (verb)
  The verb ADMINISTRATE has 1 sense:

1. work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge ofplay

  Familiarity information: ADMINISTRATE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ADMINISTRATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they administrate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it administrates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: administrated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: administrated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: administrating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

administer; administrate

Context example:

she administers the funds

Hypernyms (to "administrate" is one way to...):

care; deal; handle; manage (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "administrate"):

pontificate (administer a pontifical office)

manage; oversee; superintend; supervise (watch and direct)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

administrable (capable of being administered or managed)

administrative (of or relating to or responsible for administration)

administrator (someone who manages a government agency or department)

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

administrator (someone who administers a business)


 Context examples 


Antiangiogenic drug combination TL-118 is administrated as a specific dosing regimen and may result in a synergistic effect and reduce angiogenesis and inhibit tumor cell proliferation.

(Antiangiogenic Drug Combination TL-118, NCI Thesaurus)

Administered intratumorally, Ad/PNP expresses the enzyme PNP, which may catalyze systematically administrated fludarabine phosphate prodrug into its active form 2-fluoroadenine (F-Ade).

(Adenovirus-Encoding E.coli PNP, NCI Thesaurus)

Administrated through inhalation of the nebulized solution, dornase alpha catalyzes DNA degradation in viscous airway secretions, which may render airway secretions less viscous, thus promoting the clearing of airway mucous plugging and improvement in pulmonary function.

(Dornase alfa inhalation solution, NCI Thesaurus)



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