Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affording service or aid; assisting.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Serving to aid; ministering.

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  • adjective Serving to aid; ministering.

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Examples

  • They take over the functions of senior executive vice president and Chief A.ministrative Officer Catherine A. Rein.

    Noted ... 2008

  • From 1982 to 1993, he worked at the law firm of Husch & Eppenberger; and from 1993 to 1995, he served as an A.ministrative A.sistant for Congressman Richard A. Gephardt.

    Kennedy And Sippel Named To Federal District Courts ITY National Archives 1997

  • Even in the twenty-second cen - tury, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial ad - ministrative positions.

    Rendezvous with Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • Even in the twenty-second cen - tury, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial ad - ministrative positions.

    Rendezvous With Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • In many institutions the freedom of professors to take sides in this struggle was sharply challenged, and ad - ministrative reprisals were by no means unknown.

    ACADEMIC FREEDOM DAVID FELLMAN 1968

  • What might occur, were the dangers not to be recognized and countered, would be a compromise between ad - ministrative despotism and the sovereignty of the peo - ple.

    DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

  • Page 694, Volume 2 ministrative body, had jurisdiction in all cases involving

    COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968

  • Im - mediately after the Norman Conquest, William I began to impose on the country a centralized structure of government, and his policy of strengthening the ad - ministrative organs in the control of the king against the local institutions was continued by his successors, especially Henry II in the twelfth century.

    COMMON LAW PETER STEIN 1968

  • This isolation necessitates separate ministrative agencies from the lowest to the highest rounds of the ladder of service.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

  • What might occur, were the dangers not to be recognized and countered, would be a compromise between ad - ministrative despotism and the sovereignty of the peo - ple.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

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