administrator

/ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtə(r)/ (bre, ipa) · /ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtər/ (ame, ipa) · /əd-ˈmi-nə-ˌstrā-tər -ˌstrā-ˌtȯr/ (ame, mw)

administrator — noun

1. a senior employee paid to keep a company, school, hospital, or government office

1.名詞C1
釋義

a senior employee paid to keep a company, school, hospital, or government office running smoothly — handling paperwork, staff, money, and day-to-day decisions.

例句

Kenji works as a hospital administrator and manages the staff schedules each week.

noun phrase: work as a [type] administrator

The school administrators met with parents to discuss the new lunch program.

plural form: school administrators

同義詞
  • manager

    wider term; covers any level of supervision, while administrator stresses paperwork and policy

  • executive

    higher-level decision-maker; administrator can be senior or middle level

  • official

    stresses public-sector authority; administrator can be private or public

用法筆記

Often paired with a modifier that names the field (hospital, school, university, government, business). Distinguish from sense 2 (COMPUTING), where the person manages a computer system rather than people and paperwork.

常見錯誤

❌She is administrator of the clinic.
✅She is the administrator of the clinic.
💡countable role nouns need an article.

2. a person who looks after a computer network, website, or shared system, with ful

2.名詞B2
釋義

a person who looks after a computer network, website, or shared system, with full rights to add users, change settings, and fix problems.

例句

Only the system administrator can reset your password on the office network.

compound: system administrator

Xiomara sent the error log to the website administrator at midnight.

compound: website administrator

同義詞
  • admin

    informal short form, common in tech and online chat

  • sysadmin

    narrower; specifically a system administrator for servers and networks

  • moderator

    manages user behaviour on a site, with fewer technical rights than an administrator

反義詞
  • user

    ordinary account holder with limited rights

用法筆記

Almost always preceded by a noun naming the system (system, network, website, database, forum, server). Often shortened to 'admin' in informal speech and chat. Distinguish from sense 1 (MANAGER), which describes a job over people, not machines.

常見錯誤

❌Ask the administrator computer to help you.
✅Ask the computer administrator to help you.
💡the system word goes before 'administrator'.