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Another word for administer

VERB

  1. To have charge of (the affairs of others)

    See also:

    over

  2. To oversee the provision or execution of

    See also:

    over

  3. To provide as a remedy

    See also:

    give

  4. To mete out by means of some action

    See also:

    give

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Another word for administer

VERB

  1. To manage

    See also:

    manage

    govern

    command

  2. To apply or dispense

    See also:

    offer

  3. To inflict

    See also:

    govern

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    inflict

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Others had tried to administer to her but he knew it was pointless and turned away.

  • A priest can administer this sacrament.

  • In concluding treaties with the vassal princes since 1905, the Dutch have kept in view the necessity of compelling them properly to administer the revenues of their states, which some of them formerly squandered in their personal uses.

  • The chiefs, however, are allowed to administer their own affairs, as far as may be, in accordance with their own customs, subject to the supervision of the superintendent of the Chin hills.

  • These are subdivided into pastors, who administer the word and sacraments, doctors, who teach and expound the Bible, elders pure and simple, who exercise rule and discipline.

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