admin

• admin.
• Admin. (law)

Clipping of administrator or administration.

• enPR: ăd'mĭn", ədmĭn', IPA^(key): /ˈædˌmɪn/, /ədˈmɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)

1. (uncountable, informal) Administration, or administrative work.

   Synonym: red tape

   There's a lot of admin involved in the birth of a child.

2. (countable, informal) An administration (a body that administers; the executive part of government).
   • 2020 August 17, Juliet Eilperin, “Trump finalizes drilling plan for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”, in The Washington Post‎:

     Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) tweeted after the announcement, “I will not stop fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and stop the Trump admin’s plan for drilling.”

3. (countable, informal) An administrator (one who administers affairs).
   • 2020 December 28, Zach Montellaro, “Georgia election admins battle Covid and conspiracies ahead of Senate runoffs”, in Politico‎:

     Georgia’s election administrators are fighting bizarre conspiracy theories, ballooning costs and coronavirus-related staffing problems as they prepare for the state’s contentious, nationally watched Senate runoffs next week.

4. (countable, informal, computing) A systems administrator (one who maintains a computer system or network).

   Our admin has upgraded the server in our office, so we can exchange files faster.

5. (countable, informal, Internet) A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.

   The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.

• admin vortex
• adminhood
• adminship
• badmin
• life admin
• modmin
• superadmin
• wedmin

admin (third-person singular simple present admins, present participle admining or adminning, simple past and past participle admined or adminned)

1. (transitive, computing, informal) To serve as an administrator for or of.

• Damin, Mdina, Midan, Minda, amind, danim, mandi, manid

Borrowed from English admin.

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.mɪn/
• Hyphenation: ad‧min

admin m (plural admins)

1. (Internet) admin, administrator (user with special privileges)

Clipping of adminisztrátor.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ad‧min
• Rhymes: -in

admin (plural adminok)

1. administrator

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

admin

Wikipedia ^pl

Clipping of administrator, probably under international influence. First attested in 1991.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈad.min/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -admin
• Syllabification: ad‧min

admin m pers (female equivalent adminka)

1. (technology) admin

   Synonym: administrator

   nadgorliwy admin ― a hot-headed admin

   rozsądny admin ― a reasonable admin

   dowolny admin ― any admin

   inny admin ― another admin

   admin forum ― a forum admin

   admin serwera ― a server admin

   admin sieci ― a network admin

   admin strony ― a webpage admin

   pisać/napisać do admina ― to write to admin

   zwracać się/zwrócić się do admina ― to turn/appeal to an admin

   zgłaszać się/zgłosić się do/na admina ― to report to an admin

   głosowanie na admina ― an admin vote

• admin in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• admin in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• admin at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

• Rhymes: -ĩ

admin m or f by sense (plural admins)

1. (computing) admin

   Synonym: administrador

admin m or f by sense (plural #s)

1. (Internet) admin (A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges)

admin c

1. (computing, informal) an admin

   Jag tror du måste kontakta admin

   I think you'll have to contact the admin

   Är du admin?

   Are you an/the admin?

Usually treated as a proper noun or adjective. Uninflected except for a plural admins.