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Synonyms for administration
Synonyms for administration: brass, presidency and government. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for administration
Interchangeable with administration, one per sense
Audited under administration's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one administration carries in that sense.
- brassnoun, in the sense "the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something"
- presidencynoun, in the sense "the tenure of a president"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name administration as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- governmentgovernment is a noun in the sense "the act of governing"
two of these come from administration's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
He claims that the present administration is corrupt.
The true synonym
brass
Same sentence, swapped: He claims that the present brass is corrupt.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- disposal
- corps
- colony
the tenure of a president
Things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration.
The true synonym
presidency
Same sentence, swapped: Things were quiet during the Eisenhower presidency.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- brass
- disposal
- discipline
Where administration turns up in the game
administration is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where administration is the trap
- gripnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hold, in the sense "the act of grasping", and administration is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play administration
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so administration reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from groups and collections at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
administration is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.