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say it: ad-MIN-i-strayt
administrate is a verb meaning "work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of". It is pronounced /ædˈmɪnɪˌstɹeɪt/ — ad-MIN-i-strayt. It carries one recorded sense.
work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of
“administer a program”
“she administers the funds”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for administrate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.