ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does administrative unit mean? 

• ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT (noun)
  The noun ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a unit with administrative responsibilities

  Familiarity information: ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit with administrative responsibilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

administrative body; administrative unit

Hypernyms ("administrative unit" is a kind of...):

social unit; unit (an organization regarded as part of a larger social group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "administrative unit"):

Inland Revenue; IR (a board of the British government that administers and collects major direct taxes)

Ordnance Survey (the official cartography agency of the British government)

division (an administrative unit in government or business)

UN agency; United Nations agency (an agency of the United Nations)

council (a body serving in an administrative capacity)

secretariat; secretariate (an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations)

commission; committee (a special group delegated to consider some matter)

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

intelligence; intelligence agency; intelligence service (a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy)

international law enforcement agency (an international administrative unit responsible for law enforcement)

redevelopment authority (a public administrative unit given responsibility for the renovation of blighted urban areas)

regulatory agency; regulatory authority (a governmental agency that regulates businesses in the public interest)

weather bureau (an administrative unit responsible for gathering and interpreting meteorological data for weather study and forecasts)

placement center; placement office (an office that finds suitable employment for applicants)

child welfare agency; child welfare service (an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children)

Russian agency (an administrative agency of the Russian government)

 Context examples 

An administrative unit within a government, academic organization or business.

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