The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation.
The country's government under the rule of a particular leader.
Management.
An arrangement whereby an insolvent company can continue trading under supervision.
A body that administers; a body of administrators.
The duty of directing a ship, usually used with the verb to have or to take and accompanied by the article "the."
To direct a ship; to superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer (especially through a channel, etc, rather than steer a compass direction).