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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.

3 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 2 senses · noun · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

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.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 2, TreelineGroups and collections

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 sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

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
Sense 2 of 2nounTier 3, RidgelineTime

the tenure of a president

Things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

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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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.

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