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  • noun informal The administrative layers of an organization's hierarchy

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Examples

  • Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

    November 16th, 2006 curufea 2006

  • There's no denying that he loved the notion that anybody could now be a journalist and that you didn't need the erstwhile kingmakers in the editorial adminisphere to tell you what was and wasn't news anymore; considering his background and his own self-mythology, this makes perfect sense.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • There's no denying that he loved the notion that anybody could now be a journalist and that you didn't need the erstwhile kingmakers in the editorial adminisphere to tell you what was and wasn't news anymore; considering his background and his own self-mythology, this makes perfect sense.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • There's no denying that he loved the notion that anybody could now be a journalist and that you didn't need the erstwhile kingmakers in the editorial adminisphere to tell you what was and wasn't news anymore; considering his background and his own self-mythology, this makes perfect sense.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • There's no denying that he loved the notion that anybody could now be a journalist and that you didn't need the erstwhile kingmakers in the editorial adminisphere to tell you what was and wasn't news anymore; considering his background and his own self-mythology, this makes perfect sense.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • There's no denying that he loved the notion that anybody could now be a journalist and that you didn't need the erstwhile kingmakers in the editorial adminisphere to tell you what was and wasn't news anymore; considering his background and his own self-mythology, this makes perfect sense.

    Chez Pazienza: I, Sanchez Chez Pazienza 2010

  • Olbermann pissed a lot of people off, from his peers to his managers to the overlords in the adminisphere; MSNBC's decision to finally cut him loose wasn't a case of Olbermann saying things management didn't want him to say as much as him infuriating everyone in his path.

    Chez Pazienza: Who's Afraid of Cenk Uygur? Chez Pazienza 2011

  • Bohrman would be intimidating if he weren't such a damn news cliché in the Jerry Nachman vein, only infinitely more acquiescent to the hatchet men in the adminisphere.

    Chez Pazienza: The Outsider: My Brief Adventure in the Fortress of Mega-Media 2008

  • The only factor that truly has the ability to affect the lives of the executives in the adminisphere or their corporate overlords is the ratings.

    Chez Pazienza: Jessica Yellin 180�� 2008

  • Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

    New Words for 2002 2002

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  • A nebulous realm of risk assessments, project maps, strategems, strateties, achievables and action plans.

    May 7, 2007

  • The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and

    file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly

    inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to

    solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless

    paperwork and processes.

    October 3, 2007