Is “administrate” a real word?
This has been going round the office for the past day… so, dear lazyweb, is “administrate” a real word?
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Fri Mar 19th 13:17:01 UTC 2010
Dear kirrus.
The lazyweb says yes…
cite: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/administrate?jss=0
Already used that.. It is still claimed that it’s not a proper word
“Administer”.
There seems to be some debate on the actual first appearance of the word but Reference.com pins it at around 1630–40 and Merriam-Webster at around 1550 but, yeah, I’d mark it as proper and we Yanks use it all the time.
So, current count is 2 for and one against it being a proper word… Thanks all who commented
The correct term, is Administer