ALL meanings of self-administration
self-ad·min·is·tra·tion
S s - noun self-administration the management of any office, business, or organization; direction. 1
- noun self-administration the function of a political state in exercising its governmental duties. 1
- noun self-administration the duty or duties of an administrator in exercising the executive functions of the position. 1
- noun self-administration the management by an administrator of such duties. 1
- noun self-administration a body of administrators, especially in government. 1
- noun self-administration (often initial capital letter) the executive branch of the U.S. government as headed by the president and in power during his or her term of office: The administration has threatened to veto the new bill. The Reagan administration followed President Carter's. 1
- noun self-administration the period of service of a governmental administrator or body of governmental administrators. 1
- noun self-administration any group entrusted with executive or administrative powers: the administration of a college. 1
- noun self-administration Law. management of a decedent's estate by an executor or administrator, or of a trust estate by a trustee. 1
- noun self-administration an act of dispensing, especially formally: administration of the sacraments. 1
- noun self-administration supervision of the taking of an oath or the like. 1
- noun self-administration application, as of a salve or medicine. 1