administrative vs directive

administrative

adj
  • Of or relating to administering or administration. 

directive

adj
  • That which directs; serving to direct, indicate, or guide. 

  • Relating to the directive case. 

noun
  • An instruction or guideline that indicates how to perform an action or reach a goal. 

  • A form of legislative act addressed to the member states. The directive binds the member state to reach certain objectives in their national legislation. 

  • The directive case. 

  • An authoritative decision from an official body, which may or may not have binding force. 

  • A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run. 

How often have the words administrative and directive occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )