Administered

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ədˈmɪnɪstɚd/

Definitions

1. To manage the execution of policies and provide necessary care while also supervising the distribution of resources or treatments
2. To be responsible for organizing and controlling the operation of a program or organization ; to give or apply a substance, such as medicine or a test
3. To conduct the oversight and execution of plans or systems ; to deliver or assign a treatment or procedure to someone

Etymology: "Administered" is the past tense and past participle of "administer," so its story is really the story of the verb. The verb descends from Latin "administrare," meaning "to manage" or "to execute," built from "ad" ("to") and "ministrare," "to attend" or "to serve." That second root points back to "minister," originally a plain servant, which means the modern sense of carrying out official duties began as the idea of waiting on someone. The word reached English through Middle English "administren," which came from Old French "aminister." The verb's core notion stayed rooted in service: to administer was to attend to a task on another's behalf, whether that meant running an estate, dispensing justice, or giving a patient medicine. The sense of handing out treatments, as in administering a drug, grows naturally from that older idea of serving others.

Synonyms: managed, supervised, executed, controlled, conducted

Antonyms: neglected, ignored, abandoned, overlooked, mismanaged