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1. I wonder what is difference between these words: 'administrative' & 'administration.
2. Would you give me some examples to understand? My job I held before was relevant to administrative work / administration work.
3. related to / relevant to --> what difference?

Answer 1

1.administrative--pertains to management or performance of a function ("Mary was an administrative assistant for her boss.")

administration--management of an office, business, or organization. If shown as Administration, it refers to the executive branch of government ("President Bush's Administration will end in 2008.")

relate---to give an oral account of happenings, events, or circumstances. ("The witness had to relate the events of Tuesday night to the court.").

related--past tense of above; or to be associated with, connected to , or allied by origin, family, marriage, etc. ("Mary is related to me as a cousin." )

relevant--bearing upon or connected with the matter at hand ("a relevant remark"); appropriate, fitting ("She performed experiments relevant to her research.")

2. administrative would work best in the sentence you used.

Answer 2

Hi Sky,

1) The basic difference it that administrative is an adjective, ie a decribing word and administration is a noun, ie a name word.

2) Administation is the subject we are discussing and you just asked an adnlinstrative question, ie a quetsion about administration.
3) A father is related to his daughter (ie blood ties), but there is no relevance involved. However, if we were discussing human relationships then that is a relevant statement, because the statement is related to "human relationships" and says how they are related but has no relveance to anything else unless it is futher specified.

Answer 3

1. Administrative is an adjective. Administration is a noun.
2. Typically, an administrative job is any job where you are in control of other people. A job in administration usually requires an advanced degree and is typically higher paying job that is focalized in a certain area.
Examples:
A job as Manager of a Mcdonald's is an administrative job
A job as the Principal of a School is a job in administration

Answer 4

i think that administration is a noun, and administrative is an adjective.