administer

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To apportion out, as in administering justice.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) 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. Verb.  (intransitive) To minister to, as in administering to the sick.

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