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administers

verb

Meaning

  1. To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
  2. To apportion out, distribute.
  3. To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
  4. To minister (to).
  5. To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
  6. To give, as an oath.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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