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Etymology
Clipping of administrator or administration.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ăd'mĭn", ədmĭn', IPA(key): /ˈædˌmɪn/, /ədˈmɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)
- (uncountable, informal) Administration, or administrative work.
- Synonym: red tape
- There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child.
- (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.”
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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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Translations
informal: administrative work
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systems administrator
Verb
admin (third-person singular simple present admins, present participle admining or adminning, simple past and past participle admined or adminned)
- (transitive, computing, informal) To serve as an administrator for or of.
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- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /ˈɛd.mɪn/
- Hyphenation: ad‧min
Noun
admin m (plural admins)
- (Internet) admin, administrator (user with special privileges)
Hungarian
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admin (plural adminok)
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