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See also: admin. and Admin.

English

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Etymology

Clipping of administrator or administration.

Pronunciation

Noun

admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)

  1. (uncountable, informal) Administration, or administrative work.
    Synonym: red tape
    There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child.
  2. (countable, informal) An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).
    • 2020 August 17, Juliet Eilperin, “Trump finalizes drilling plan for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”, in The Washington Post‎:
      Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.”
    • 2025 December 10, Megan Twohey, Isabella Kwai, quoting Andrew Tate, “How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      “I had word from The Trump admin that theyre[sic] on top of things,” Mr. Tate wrote to someone close to him, in a message reviewed by The New York Times.
      (Can we archive this URL?)
  3. (uncountable, informal) The administrative or managerial body of a company or other organization.
    • 2020, “Zoo”, in Still at the Rough Cusp of Renaissance, performed by Good Fuck:
      Barren dirt plots behind knee-high metal fences indicated admin must have cut the flower budget.
  4. (countable, informal) An administrator (one who administers affairs).
    • 2020 December 28, Zach Montellaro, “Georgia election admins battle Covid and conspiracies ahead of Senate runoffs”, in Politico‎:
      Georgia’s election administrators are fighting bizarre conspiracy theories, ballooning costs and coronavirus-related staffing problems as they prepare for the state’s contentious, nationally watched Senate runoffs next week.
  5. (countable, informal, computing) A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).
    Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.
  6. (countable, informal, Internet) A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.
    The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.

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Verb

admin (third-person singular simple present admins, present participle admining or (uncommon) adminning, simple past and past participle admined or (uncommon) adminned)

  1. (transitive, computing, informal) To serve as an administrator for or of.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English admin.

Pronunciation

Noun

admin m (plural admins, no diminutive)

  1. (Internet) admin, administrator (user with special privileges)

Hungarian

Etymology

Clipping of adminisztrátor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒdmin]
  • Hyphenation: ad‧min
  • Rhymes: -in

Noun

admin (plural adminok)

  1. administrator

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