ADMIN | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of admin in English adminnoun   informal uk /ˈæd.mɪn/ us /ˈæd.mɪn/

admin noun (ORGANIZING TASKS)

Add to word list Add to word list [ U ] short for administration : arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan, an organization, a person's activities, etc.: Let's skip through the boring admin first: we have to fill out this form.in admin Over 100 people are employed by the college as teaching staff or in admin.

• I had some personal admin to do, like paying bills and answering messages.
• The costs of admin account for less than 0.15% of the charges paid by the client.

Managing and organizing

• administer
• administration
• anti-bureaucracy
• bronze command
• bureaucracy
• get up phrasal verb
• gold command
• have something in hand idiom
• have/get your shit together idiom
• head something up phrasal verb
• mobilize
• mount
• party planner
• party planning
• project-manage
• rationalization
• rationalize
• recentralization
• vice-presidential
• wieldy

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Office practices Types of employment

admin noun (PERSON)

[ C ]   computing   specialized short for administrator : a person who is in charge of the operation of a network of computers, a website, a group of computer users, etc., and is able to make changes to it: Only admins can add people to the group chat or change the name of the group.network/site/domain admin Who is listed as the network/site admin on the registration? I have full admin rights on the network.

• I logged on as an admin using the password provided.
• I think this is an essential resource for every IT admin.
• Let the network admin know if the system is running slow.
• Users cannot add records to the database unless they are domain admins.
• You can log on remotely if you have admin privileges.

Operating computers

• administrator
• aliasing
• always-on
• attach
• attachment
• back someone up phrasal verb
• black hat
• drop-down menu
• hack
• keystroke
• left-click
• live streamer
• logoff
• logon
• parallel
• uncap
• uncapped
• uncheck
• uncompressed
• unhide

See more results » adminadjective [ before noun ]   informal uk /ˈæd.mɪn/ us /ˈæd.mɪn/ short for administrative : relating to the arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan, an organization, a person's activities, etc.: admin assistant He's an admin assistant at a PR firm. They said the discrepancy in the accounts was simply an admin error.admin position/job We're hiring for two admin positions/jobs. admin cost/expense The admin costs/expenses for the office are too high.

• Higher admin costs were offset by higher sales.
• Tickets cost $15 each plus a small admin fee.
• I spent the morning doing a few admin tasks.
• The requirement to register imposes an additional admin burden on members.

Deteriorating and making worse

• add
• aggravate
• aggravating
• aggravating factor
• backslide
• descent into something
• deteriorate
• deterioration
• devaluation
• disintegrate
• lower the tone
• make matters worse idiom
• one step forward, two steps back idiom
• regress
• regression
• vulgarization
• vulgarize
• wear thin idiom
• worse
• worsen

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Office practices Types of employment (Definition of admin from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

admin | Business English

adminnoun [ U ]   WORKPLACE uk /ˈædmɪn/ us Add to word list Add to word list short for administration: the activities involved in managing or organizing a business or other organization: I don't want my best salespeople spending all their time doing admin. an admin error an admin fee/charge an admin job short for administration: the part of a business or other organization that manages or organizes its activities: There has been the occasional disagreement between admin and sales. the admin department (Definition of admin from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of admin

admin They first point out that with every academic there also has to be a trained technician and an overhead cost, building, admin, etc. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The programme covers ancillaries, admin and clerical, professional and technical, ambulance and nursing staff, midwives and senior managers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is usually 6 months in theatre plus a further 1½ months made up of pre-deployment training and post-deployment admin and leave (a total of 7½ months). From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Salaries for legal advisers are advertised at £25,518 to £32,001 (depending upon experience); deputy justices' clerks are advertised at £39,072 to £43,293; and admin/payments staff vacancies are advertised at £10,974 to £14,433. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Contributions are monitored by a group of admins, but the bulk of peer review, editorial curation, and maintenance is the responsibility of the user community. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This large extension also serves as a welcome area, admin/office space and also an upstairs seating area. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Additionally, they published admin user name and password for other citizens to log in and clear their debts early morning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some admins keep articles in local or technical newsgroups around longer than articles in other newsgroups. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The news admin (the administrator of a news server) decides how long articles are kept on his server before being expired (deleted). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Those field switches are operated and supervised by the field admins for that particular field. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This type of service could include support for corporate admins or end users. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The admin for a server typically represents the owners and financiers of the server. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Extensive admin, developer and user documentation is available on the project site. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The admin/preschool building contains an elementary library with an amphitheater and elementary computer lab. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. An admin user can publish new template queries, change report pages and create public lists at any time without any programming. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of admin These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of admin?

Translations of admin

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