Also means
management
Usage Note
Verwaltung is the word for 'administration' or 'management' of an organization, and by extension the 'administrative office' itself. It names a whole bureaucratic sphere; die öffentliche Verwaltung is the civil service or public administration.
Examples
"Die Verwaltung ist heute geschlossen."
Natural Translation
The administration is closed today.
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