How to Use administrative in a Sentence

administrative

adjective
  • She has an administrative job.
  • Nelly was on Republic Records at the time, so there were no administrative hurdles.
    Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There will then be time for administrative appeals or to potentially rectify problems with what was sent earlier.
    Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The administrative and bureaucratic hurdles can be a barrier to enrollees, not to mention an unnecessary cost to the states.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Finley spent much of her career serving in various teaching and administrative roles in Huntsville City Schools.
    Rebecca Griesbach | , al, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The top floor houses the Tax Collector’s administrative offices.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The schools took the money to the bank, and this helps explain administrative bloat.
    WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • By the end of the week, a Catholic priest had been stripped of his administrative duties because of it.
    Stefano Montali, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • But what would the United States look like without the administrative state?
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
  • The officers had been placed on administrative leave, but now they were cleared and had already returned to the streets.
    Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The deputies are on administrative leave with pay while the probe is ongoing, Taylor said.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • The tower guard was first placed on administrative leave and later fired.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Shirley has been placed on administrative leave with pay.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • On hand were members of the district’s administrative and board staff.
    cleveland, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Much of the way the administrative state works is safeguarded in the minds of career staff who pass their knowledge on to the next cadre of federal workers.
    Zoya Teirstein, WIRED, 27 July 2024
  • The administrative hub will be located in the D.C. area.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • But the local administrative center was not designed to take care of that kind of business.
    Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • That administrative process didn't preclude the parties from closing the deal.
    Matt O'Brien, ajc, 12 June 2023
  • As the judge dealt with a few administrative matters — dates for appeals, the next trial, sentencing — Fried stared up at the ceiling.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 3 Nov. 2023
  • He's since been put on administrative leave, per KHOU11.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The officer who shot the van’s driver was placed on administrative leave, Aziz said.
    Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
  • An administrative panel of the 9th Circuit granted that stay, but now, with Saturday’s order, the law is once more blocked while the case proceeds.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Robin Heath was an administrative jail lieutenant who worked at the Benton County sheriff's office and was fired on Sept.
    Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 21 Jan. 2024
  • And be very pragmatic and focused on what that support looks like, rather than trying to be administrative.
    Bypaige McGlauflin, Fortune, 5 July 2024
  • With the help of consultants hired by the city, Donald and her staff have scrambled to write a new administrative plan for the agency — a huge document that would alter a wide range of policies.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • On the docket for the justices in the upcoming term, which runs through June 2024, are cases involving the First Amendment, administrative power, and gun rights.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The officer who discharged his firearm has been placed on administrative leave.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The Vallejo Police Department placed Tonn on administrative leave after the shooting, and fired him in 2021.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The wall outside the department’s administrative office was adorned with a long row of portraits, featuring Nobel laureates who had called the institution home.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Just the taxonomical, almost administrative duty of sorting and naming.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2024

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