administrator

/ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtər/ noun [C]

Definition

› WORKPLACE someone whose job is to manage a business or business activity: A new administrator has taken over at the park, and more stringent business practices are in place. She spent 10 years as a very capable administrator of New York City Opera.

› UK LAW a person chosen by a court to manage a company that cannot pay its debts in order to try to improve its financial situation and to keep it operating: The court-appointed administrator asked a court to declare the firm bankrupt. → Compare liquidator, receiver

(Definition of administrator noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)