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amministrare

to manage

verb ahm-mee-nee-STRAH-reh Rare
People & Society Government

Origin: From Latin administrare, from ad- + ministrare (to serve).

Also means

to administer

Usage Note

Amministrare covers public administration (amministrare un comune, to run a municipality), business management, and even the administration of medicine or sacraments. The agent noun is amministratore (manager, director, administrator). It takes avere as auxiliary in compound tenses.

Examples

"Il sindaco amministra la città da tre anni."

Natural Translation

The mayor has been managing the city for three years.

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