Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Administrative details that must be dealt with in order to do more interesting work.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the tiresome but essential details that must be taken care of and tasks that must be performed in running an organization
Etymologies
- Blend of administrative and trivia; 1930s US. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“If it's any comfort, the word administrivia is awesome.”
“But if you don’t want to flounder in administrivia”
“You have to have lawyers and accountants to make sure you have lived up to all the local, regional, state and national "administrivia" that is required of you.”
“This is often affiliated with "administrivia" needless paperwork and processes.”
“Yet, what constrains the function from getting respected in most organizations is a focus on being good at "administrivia," and not "the more important strategic role of raising the reputational and intellectual capital of the company.”
“Various bits of administrivia occurred these past 12 months as well, including a third blog redesign.”
“Too often entrepreneurs burden themselves with administrivia and extra work without even thinking.”
“And once you get started you have to keep up with the administrivia.”
“[Aug. 22nd, 2008 | 06: 49 pm] [Tags | administrivia]”
“May for me, though, was chock full of workshops, and then June was full of administrivia--important administrivia, like figuring out how to do my first annual report for my new program, hosting a consultant, and working out a major bureaucratic shift of a related unit into my small unit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘administrivia’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1076 more...
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EN - bureaucratese
This is to save the "Hellatine Dictionary of Bureaucratese" from oblivion. The list is extremely rich in neologisms but is no longer updated regularly, which is a shame. For its disclaimer and all ...
abbrevate, ablivion, abmure, abrevision, absentiment, abvice, abvisce, abvise, accretiate, acronism, acrost, additative and 743 more...
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portmanteaus
slithy, chortle, mimsy, galumph, maffluent, smog, motel, momentaneous, splisters, swifting, editated, splatter and 73 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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Look Busy
Get to work!
ergophobia, elucubrate, karoshi, dogsbody, forswonk, moil, deft, assiduous, panurgic, paperasserie, bumf, blackleg and 91 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
dictionaries,these are from Macquarie
Dictionary and not playable in
scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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word set7
brownie wings, apostasy, agents provocateurs, de rigueur, epiphenomenonal, gregorian calendar, morganatic, geomagnetic storm, syncopated, oppositionist, civil twilight, topologically and 75 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for administrivia.
ecrivaine33 I first saw this word in Po Bronson's book, "What Should I Do With My Life," which I was reading this morning on the Metrorail train to work. Jan 19, 2007