amministrare
to manage
verb ahm-mee-nee-STRAH-reh Rare
Origin: From Latin administrare, from ad- + ministrare (to serve).
Also means
to administer
Usage Note
Amministrare covers public administration (amministrare un comune, to run a municipality), business management, and even the administration of medicine or sacraments. The agent noun is amministratore (manager, director, administrator). It takes avere as auxiliary in compound tenses.
Examples
"Il sindaco amministra la città da tre anni."
Natural Translation
The mayor has been managing the city for three years.
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