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Definition of Administrative body
1. Noun. A unit with administrative responsibilities.
Specialized synonyms: Inland Revenue, Ir, Ordnance Survey, Division, Un Agency, United Nations Agency, Council, Secretariat, Secretariate, Commission, Committee, Agency, Authority, Bureau, Federal Agency, Government Agency, Office, Intelligence, Intelligence Agency, Intelligence Service, International Law Enforcement Agency, Redevelopment Authority, Regulatory Agency, Regulatory Authority, Weather Bureau, Placement Center, Placement Office, Child Welfare Agency, Child Welfare Service, Russian Agency
Generic synonyms: Social Unit, Unit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Administrative Body
Literary usage of Administrative body
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The general administrative body, which is located at the mother-house in Montreal,
is composed of the superior ..."
2. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"1 As an administrative body, the council exercised a multi- As an plicity of
functions, the chief of which related to the manage- ^"bod^* ment of the ..."
3. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"As an administrative body the council exercised a multitude AS an ad- of functions,
the chief of which related to ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and the administration of statutory relief naturally devolved on the central
government—the only vigorous administrative body left in the country. ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"Even when the city council or other removing power sits to hear charges against
an officer as a cause for removal, it is an administrative body exercising ..."
6. The Modern High School: Its Administration and Extension by Charles Hughes Johnston (1914)
"Attitude of the administrative body.—In the "good old days," so often mentioned
by the critics of modern (^K education, the entire aim of the school was to ..."
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