administers

verb

(transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the parameters for the conduct, performance or execution of; to work in an administrative capacity.

(transitive, medicine) To give (a drug, to a patient), be it orally or by any other means.

(transitive) To apportion out, distribute.

To give, as an oath.

(intransitive) To minister (to).

(law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.

(transitive, medicine) To cause (a patient, human or animal) to ingest (a drug), either by openly offering or through deceit.

Roots

minusminister- · Latin · less

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