Functioning and Administration

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• A method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs.
  • synonyms: disposal
• The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something.
  • usage: "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment"
  • synonyms: governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation
• The act of administering medication.
  • synonyms: giving medication
• The tenure of a president.
  • usage: "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"
  • synonyms: presidency, presidential term
• The act of governing; exercising authority.
  • usage: "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"
  • synonyms: government, governing, governance, government activity
• The act of meting out justice according to the law.
  • synonyms: judicature

• (n.) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.
• (n.) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
• (n.) The act of administering or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice or of the sacrament.
• (n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate or of a testator having no competent executor.
• (n.) The management of an estate of a deceased person by an executor, the strictly corresponding term execution not being in use.