admin

¹

[ ad-min, ad-min ]

noun

1. administration; administrative work.
2. an administrative assistant:

   My admin will call you back with that information later today.

3. an administrator:

   government admins.

adjective

1. of or relating to an administrator or to administrative functions:

   You can’t install computer programs without admin privileges.

admin.

²

abbreviation for

1. administration.

admin

/ ˈædmɪn /

noun

1. informal.
   short for administration

Word History and Origins

Origin of admin¹

By shortening

Example Sentences

Group admins will also be able to organize content from their community by hashtag, then pin a topic to the top of the Group to highlight it for everyone.

From TechCrunch

In July, the company was hit by a very public cyberattack on the company’s internal “admin” tools that played out on the social media platform in real time, as hackers hijacked high profile Twitter accounts to spread a cryptocurrency scam.

From TechCrunch

Now, Facebook says both admins and moderators alike will not be able to create any new groups for “a period of time” after their group had been banned for a policy violation.

From TechCrunch

The company will begin to archive groups without an active admin in the weeks ahead, it said.

From TechCrunch

The network is easily managed by a super admin and its potential growth is practically unlimited.

From Search Engine Watch

Email the admin if your [sic] interested in walking away from your life (we have weapons if you need a weapon) to stop the Regime.

From The Daily Beast

Sensing the turning tide, the admin is ratcheting up the rhetoric.

From The Daily Beast

His father, Luis Heitor, works in admin at a public hospital.

From The Daily Beast

The places where the oaths of this local “Mafia” are admin istered, for instance, are well known.

From Project Gutenberg