administration

noun

1. a method of tending to or managing the affairs of some group of people (especially the group's business affairs)
2. the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something"he claims that the present administration is corrupt"
3. the act of administering medication
4. the tenure of a president"things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration"
5. the act of governing; exercising authority"regulations for the governing of state prisons"
6. the act of meting out justice according to the law