HOW TO PRONOUNCE
administrator
/ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹeɪ.tɚ/
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ad-MIN-ih-stray-ter: give MIN the main beat.
Keep the str sounds together in “stray.” The ending is an unstressed ter, with no extra vowel between the t and r-colored vowel.
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“The administrator answered our questions about enrollment.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does administrator mean?
noun
- One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
- A person who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right of administration has been committed by competent authority
- One who is responsible for software installation, management, information and maintenance of a computer or network.
More meanings (1)
noun
- The queen's representative in some Commonwealth territories, comparable to a Governor General.
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IPA pronunciation
/ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stɹeɪ.tɚ/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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Moreover the property was large, and the younger sisters would require a guardian, and the estate an administrator.
Driving the troops of the Administrator from their entrenchments, he cut off his communication with Saxony, and closely invested the place.
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If the administrator find the tobacco well prepared, he pays the cultivator three piastres for the aroba of twenty-five pounds weight.
Dudevant's irritability was increased by the fact that he was always short of money, and that he was aware of his own deplorable shortcomings as a financial administrator.
One black chicken which the administrator could not catch, black as night and as silent, not even croaking, awaiting Reynard, still went to roost in the next apartment.