A government body dat likes to do a lot of finger-wagging and tongue-clucking at the people under its jurisdiction.
I resent having Big Brother try to tell me what's best for me, anyway, but what really broils my pudding is when an admonistration hypocritically "talks out of both sides of its mouth" (i.e., says one thing but does another)... a classic example is where they loudly decry the practice of couples' cohabitating without a wedding band, yet they charge people more in income-taxes if they get married.
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Term used to describe the plans of executive office of the United States. Most recently in Bush's Iraq progress report on 7/13/07.
Coined by President George W. Bush
Coined by President George W. Bush
"I'm gonna explain why the success of this administrategy is vital for protecting our people and bringing our troops home..."
I don't think anyone agrees with Bush's administrategy.
I don't think anyone agrees with Bush's administrategy.
by Deacon Dr. S. Skillz December 31, 2008
Get the administrategy mug.The fuzzy-edged bureaucracy that complexifies and restricts every interaction between citizen and government, or indeed between any entities within any hierarchy, organisation, network or concept related thereto.
"Heeeey, how are you?"
"Hey! Good, mate, yourself? Did you get your paperwork yet?"
"Man, I'm telling you: I've queued, added all up, in the last three weeks, for seventeen hours. I've been sent from public office to public office, to gather increasing amounts of paper with my photos attached to them, smudged with stamps by angry, fast-talking Catalan women who don't like guiris, only begrudgingly performing her function when she's assured herself that I carry three (3) certified copies of every form I've accumulated so far! But do you think I'm through the Spanish administriction yet?"
"Uh.. I'm guessing no?"
"Hey! Good, mate, yourself? Did you get your paperwork yet?"
"Man, I'm telling you: I've queued, added all up, in the last three weeks, for seventeen hours. I've been sent from public office to public office, to gather increasing amounts of paper with my photos attached to them, smudged with stamps by angry, fast-talking Catalan women who don't like guiris, only begrudgingly performing her function when she's assured herself that I carry three (3) certified copies of every form I've accumulated so far! But do you think I'm through the Spanish administriction yet?"
"Uh.. I'm guessing no?"
by Jonas Laberg October 3, 2007
Get the Administriction mug.A person who works in a bureaucracy who gleefully invokes policies and procedures to inflict emotional or other distress on clients of the agency in question. Derived from 'administrator' and 'castration.'
After calling the Child Support Agency about this problem three times and getting the same adminicastrator every time I finally gave up and called complaints directly.
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ad·min·is·tra·tive ad-min-uh-strey-tiv, -struh- –adjective: pertaining to administration
con·cierge French, from Old French cumcerges, from Vulgar Latin *conservius, alteration of Latin conservus, fellow slave : com-, com- + servus, slave.
ad·min·is·tra·tive ad-min-uh-strey-tiv, -struh- –adjective: pertaining to administration
con·cierge French, from Old French cumcerges, from Vulgar Latin *conservius, alteration of Latin conservus, fellow slave : com-, com- + servus, slave.
"The admincierge is late delivering my order from the Snottery Barn."
"I don't worry about such details*... <sniff> ... the admincierge can deal with such dreck."
*shutting doors; unjamming machines; turning off lights; flushing, etc.
"I don't worry about such details*... <sniff> ... the admincierge can deal with such dreck."
*shutting doors; unjamming machines; turning off lights; flushing, etc.
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