{
  "id": "administration.administrative",
  "term": "administration",
  "sense": "administrative",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "lexicon_entry",
  "domain": "administration",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "The organized management of people and resources in a system.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "management.administrative",
      "people.social",
      "resource.material",
      "system.organized",
      "organized.structure"
    ],
    "interaction": "Management and people use resources in a system under a persistent, organized structure.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "structured oversight",
      "coordinated resource allocation",
      "sustained operational framework"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains precise orbit and life support through continuous coordination by NASA and Roscosmos teams.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs manages healthcare for over 9 million veterans across 1,200 facilities.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Amazon's Kiva robots in warehouse fulfillment centers sort and transport goods under centralized software control.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "administration",
    "administrations"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'organized.structure' to components since the definition's notion of 'organized management' inherently depends on structural persistence not fully captured by 'system.organized' alone."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-administration.administrative"
}