How to spell administration

hear itad·min·is·tra·tion/æd,mɪnɪ'streɪʃən/nounRules and real life

What it means: The group responsible for managing a school.

In a sentence: The school administration planned a fun sports day for everyone.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as adminstration or administracion.

Same family: administrative, administrator, administrative staff, administrative office, administratively. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Administration” comes from Latin *administratio*, meaning ‘management’ or ‘direction’, formed from *ad-* (‘to’) and *ministrare* (‘to serve’). It originally emphasized the idea of ‘serving’ or ‘assisting’ in managing affairs, which is still reflected in modern public and business administration.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa)

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