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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
administrivia is a noun meaning "the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization". It carries one recorded sense.
the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization
“he sets policy and leaves all the administrivia to his assistant”
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 administrivia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.