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.
Related Words
- Abgeordnetenhaus house of deputies
- Abschiebebescheid deportation order
- Abzeichnungspflicht countersignature requirement; obligation to have a draft initialled by a superior
- Aktenvermerk file note; internal memorandum recorded in an administrative case file
- Aktenzeichen file reference number
- Allparteienkoalition all-party coalition; government formed by all parliamentary parties
- Amt office
- Amtliche Beglaubigung official certification; authentication of a document by a public authority
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