administrators
- 1Plural of administrator.
Hospital administrators approved the funding for new equipment.
The network administrators restored access within an hour of the outage.
Note
A regular plural, made with a plain -s, that carries every meaning of the singular. Most often it names managers, such as hospital or school administrators, or the people who keep a computer network running. In law it names those appointed to settle an estate when someone dies without a will, or when no competent executor exists. Executors are named in a will, while administrators are appointed by an authority. Context tells which is meant.
administrators is a form of administrator
administrator, noun: A person who directs, manages, executes, or carries out affairs, whether in civil, judicial, political, or religious matters. Full entry
- Forms
- administratoradministrators plural
- Spelling
- administrator → administrators: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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