administering

The word “administering” has 5 syllables: ad-min-is-ter-ing

It's pronounced as /ədˈmɪnɪstɚɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for administering?

In the thesaurus, “administering” has 93 synonyms and 14 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for administering along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for administering

  • admeasuring
  • administrating
  • allocating
  • allotting
  • allowing
  • applying
  • apportioning
  • appropriating
  • assigning
  • bestowing
  • bringing about
  • carrying on
  • chipping in
  • circulating
  • citing
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • codirecting
  • comanaging
  • conducting
  • contributing
  • controlling
  • directing
  • disbursing
  • discharging
  • dishing out
  • dispensing
  • dispersing
  • disseminating
  • distributing
  • dividing
  • doling out
  • donating
  • effecting
  • effectuating
  • enacting
  • enforcing
  • executing
  • fulfilling
  • furnishing
  • governing
  • guarding
  • guiding
  • handing out
  • handling
  • honoring
  • implementing
  • invoking
  • issuing
  • keeping
  • leading
  • legislating
  • lotting
  • managing
  • micromanaging
  • minding
  • observing
  • operating
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • parting
  • piloting
  • pledging
  • portioning
  • promulgating
  • proportioning
  • prorating
  • prosecuting
  • protecting
  • providing
  • rationing
  • reallocating
  • reapportioning
  • redistributing
  • regulating
  • rendering
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • scattering
  • setting
  • sharing
  • splitting
  • spreading
  • stage-managing
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supplying
  • tending
  • upholding
  • watching
  • watching over

Antonyms for administering

Meanings of administering

  • verb
    1. To cause to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.
    2. To apportion out, distribute.
    3. To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.
    4. To minister (to).
    5. To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
    6. To give, as an oath.
    7. To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.
  • noun
    1. Administration.

Example Sentences

  • The nurse is administering the vaccine to the children.
  • He is responsible for administering company policies.
  • The doctor spent the afternoon administering first aid to injured hikers.
  • She was administering justice fairly and efficiently.
  • Volunteers are administering food and water to disaster victims.

On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to administering, such as: admeasuring, administrating, allocating, allotting, allowing, applying, apportioning.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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maintaining

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  • rumpus
  • running
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  • setting up
  • settled on
  • shielding
  • sitting
  • situated
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  • staking
  • stand
  • standing up for
  • stating
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  • stressing
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  • succession
  • suggesting
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  • tenacity
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  • warranting
  • wielding

handing out

  • admeasuring
  • administering
  • administration
  • allocating
  • alloting
  • allotment
  • allotting
  • allowing
  • apportioning
  • apportionment
  • appropriating
  • assessment
  • assigning
  • awarding
  • bequeathing
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  • ceding
  • chipping in
  • circulating
  • circulation
  • conferring
  • contributing
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  • dealing
  • delivery
  • diffusion
  • disbursing
  • dishing out
  • dispensation
  • dispensing
  • dispersal
  • dispersing
  • disposal
  • disposing
  • disseminating
  • dissemination
  • dissipating
  • distributing
  • dividing
  • division
  • dole
  • doling out
  • donating
  • endowing
  • expending
  • furnishing
  • granting
  • handling
  • imparting
  • issuing
  • lotting
  • mailing
  • marketing
  • offering
  • parting
  • partition
  • partitioning
  • passing out
  • permitting
  • pledging
  • portioning
  • presenting
  • propagation
  • proportioning
  • prorating
  • providing
  • rationing
  • reallocating
  • reapportioning
  • redistributing
  • remitting
  • scattering
  • setting
  • sharing
  • splitting
  • spreading
  • supplying
  • trading
  • transferring
  • transport
  • transportation
  • yielding

handing over

  • abandoning
  • abnegating
  • administering
  • advancing
  • allocating
  • apportioning
  • assigning
  • bearing
  • bequeathing
  • bucking
  • carrying
  • carting
  • ceding
  • commending
  • commitment
  • committing
  • conferring
  • confiding
  • consigning
  • consignment
  • conveyance
  • coughing up
  • deeding
  • delegating
  • delivering
  • deserting
  • discarding
  • dispatch
  • dispensing
  • dispersing
  • distributing
  • distribution
  • dividing
  • doling out
  • drop
  • entrusting
  • feeding
  • fingering
  • forfeiting
  • forsaking
  • freighting
  • furnishing
  • giving
  • giving over
  • giving up
  • granting
  • handing
  • handing down
  • handing in
  • handing on
  • handling
  • impartment
  • intrusting
  • laying down
  • leaving
  • lending
  • loaning
  • mailing
  • making over
  • parcel post
  • passing
  • pawing
  • portage
  • portioning
  • post
  • prorating
  • providing
  • reaching
  • recommending
  • recommitting
  • redelivering
  • relaying
  • releasing
  • relinquishing
  • rendering
  • rendition
  • renouncing
  • reposing
  • resigning
  • retransferring
  • retransmitting
  • shedding
  • shipment
  • submitting
  • supplying
  • surrender
  • surrendering
  • transferring
  • transmission
  • transmitting
  • trusting
  • turning in
  • turning over
  • vesting
  • waiving
  • willing
  • yielding

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