Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being administered.

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  • adjective Capable of being administered.

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  • adjective Able to be administered

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  • adjective capable of being administered or managed

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Examples

  • The law should recognize this fact and move toward a system that is fair and administrable.

    Transfer Pricing As Tax Avoidance 2010

  • Instead, in the new version they offered Wednesday, Democratic leaders attempted to soften it by adding a test, which they said would make it "more administrable."

    Senate Proposal Pits IRS Against Small Businesses 2010

  • It seems unlikely that the EPA will actually act unilaterally to regulate carbon; the most administrable policy will probably remain market-based solutions such as cap-and-trade and similar proposals, rather than a command-and-control approach.

    Mike Signer: The Incredible Hulk in Copenhagen 2009

  • A more achievable target for SAG would be retroactivity to January 1, which also has the virtue of being easily administrable and not retroactively increasing costs for production in a calendar year (2008) that's now over.

    Jonathan Handel: SAG-Studio Pregame Report 2009

  • The court has additional power in maritime cases, and "we've simply got to come up with a number, because no other way is going to give us any kind of an administrable standard," Justice Souter said.

    Top Court Weighs Exxon Claim 2008

  • Congress, if it is truly interested in reducing illegal immigration, can and should make this process relatively simple by setting administrable rather than punitive terms.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Possibly judges cannot fashion administrable rules in this area.

    Balkinization 2004

  • Possibly judges cannot fashion administrable rules in this area.

    Balkinization 2004

  • There are now reports out of accounting firms and from the Treasury that it isn't even administrable.

    Press Briefing By Staff Members ITY National Archives 1999

  • And we think the technologies that we've identified are the most promising and the most administrable of the various options that we considered.

    Briefing On Radio Address ITY National Archives 1998

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