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administer English

Meaning administer meaning

What does administer mean?
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administer Verb

— If you administer a test, program etc., you organize and supervise it. The school administers IELTS and TOEFL tests for students who need to take them. — If a medical person administers drugs they put the drugs into the person or animal. Sometimes, nurses administer the drug to the wrong patient.

administer

— verb work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of administer a program she administers the funds — verb perform (a church sacrament) ritually administer the last unction — verb (= deal, dispense, shell out, dole out) administer or bestow, as in small portions administer critical remarks to everyone present dole out some money shell out pocket money for the children deal a blow to someone the machine dispenses soft drinks — verb give or apply (medications) — verb direct the taking of administer an exam administer an oath

Synonyms administer synonyms

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administer English » English

manage govern control direct dispense administrate supervise run rule give deal provide operate handle distribute conduct apply perform execute confer afford accord yield regulate parcel out management lead grant dominate allow allot allocate take supply superintendence spare shell out serve reign practice pick up minister mete out maintain lot lend impart give out dose donate

Topics administer topics

What do people use administer to talk about?
Person Healthy Injure

Poison
Person Healthy Treat disease

Medicine
Social behavior

Law

Conjugation administer conjugation

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administer · verb

Examples administer examples

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Simple sentences

The syringe is the instrument most commonly used to administer insulin.

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Need I remind you of the punishment that I must perforce administer?
I think I can administer it.
The warrant charges you for that on May 6,1946, you did willfully administer or cause to be administered some poisonous substance to one Richard Patrick Irving Paradine and did murder him.
To administer the last rites.
Whereas Morbius, with his artificially expanded intellect..is now ideally suited to administer this power for the whole human race.
Jo, I make my living knowing when and how to administer medicine.
We're going to administer Barney Quill's estate.
I can only hope, I was able to administer it in time.
They authorize me. to continue to administer all these affairs.
These Zionist organizations, or whatever they call them. send their own people over from Palestine to administer these camps.
Administer the oath of loyalty, Flimnap.
I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially.
Your Honors. the defendants on trial here today. did not personally administer the concentration camps.
Will the chair please administer the oath to Mr. Lewis Newborne. of the Federal Rower Commission.
Administer the oath.
Don't you see? If we're his legal guardians. won't we administer everything?
Whereas Morbius, with his artificially expanded intellect is now ideally suited to administer this power for the whole human race.
We must administer an anesthetic to the creature, where it lies.
With little or no knowledge of the amount of chemicals a canary could tolerate, Stroud proceeded to administer the oxidisers to his sick birds.
Dr. Brant will administer one drop into each eye of the subject.
It is my duty to administer her justice to these prisoners.
Administer the ether.
Get Judge Thomas on the phone have him appoint somebody close to us to administer the estate.
We had to get the internes in to administer a sedative.
Your Honours, the defendants on trial here today did not personally administer the concentration camps.
Mr Chairman. my name is Aimard.a, i. I'm chairman of no trust, nor do I administer any company.
Who will administer them?
You have to take all your medications, and I'll administer them.
If I touch you again, Your Glory, it'll be to administer an ancient Earth custom called a spanking, a form of punishment administered to spoiled brats.
We will vacate at once until you can administer a metabolic reduction injection. - A what?
While the bodies are occupied, you will administer one injection of 10 cc's each hour. I understand.
This one, you will administer to Captain Kirk while Sargon is in his body.
But since I will arrange for you to administer each of the injections, no one else will notice.
Perhaps you'd care for me to administer the last few injections.
Kloog will administer correction.

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I believe that every member state should administer those policies that do not directly and significantly affect other member states.
In such a medicalized framework it is morally and legally almost irrelevant who finally administers the lethal drug: if physicians are closely involved, there is no reason why they should not administer the lethal drug themselves.
Physicians are not required to be present at the suicide, and they are not allowed to administer the lethal drug.
Again, the researchers had interviewers administer what resembled a typical survey of a random sample of households.
Consider organizations that regulate medical licenses or administer medical emergency relief funds.
But can any such government administer the country as a whole?
The royal family is empowered to administer the country, but through consultation with different sectors, like tribal leaders or merchant groups.
Such organizations often take advantage of states that lack the legitimacy or capacity to administer their own territory effectively, launching a mix of political and armed operations that, over time, give them coercive control over local populations.
For now, because of the relation between the different levels of government, local governments have very little to gain from an economic upswing within the areas that they administer.
For example, the civil services in Iraq have recently crossed a threshold beyond which they are now probably impossible to administer.
After that, they should establish a legitimate authority inside Syria that can administer liberated areas, distribute aid, and provide services to civilians.
Some of the rules that it proposes are unenforceable - and thus merely a source of red tape for migrants and their employers that would require huge public bureaucracies to administer.
All great universities are nonprofit organizations, created to administer higher education, which benefits society as a whole.
But having different authorities administer different parts of Syria is preferable to the absence of any responsible governance across large swaths of the country.
That is why you need an independent fiscal council to administer it, just as you need an independent central bank to pursue an inflation-targeting monetary rule.
Young unmarried women who were sent to administer the neocolonial efforts in conquered Poland and other territories gained adventure, advanced professional training, and opportunity.
It discredits liberalism by employing liberal rhetoric and appointing liberal leaders to administer its authoritarian rule, leaving political opposition to leftist parties and nationalists.
For example, studies of epidural steroid injections for back pain have been shown to be almost three times more likely to yield positive results when conducted by doctors who routinely administer them.
It is feared that the Supreme Electoral Council, strongly dominated by the FSLN and the PLC, may not administer the vote counting impartially.
Third, industrial policy's practitioners need to bear in mind that it aims to serve society at large, not the bureaucrats who administer it or the businesses that receive the incentives.
I edged out of the room, as he reared the syringe to administer another dose.
The system is complex, expensive to administer, and can result in double taxation because members usually do not allow full write-offs for losses and tax liabilities incurred abroad.
It would be transparent, simple, and easy to administer.

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