administrivia
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prettygoodwordadministrivia (uhd-MIN-uh-STRI-vee-uh) - n., the mundane administrative details involved in running an organization or executing a process.
Surely I've run this before? I mean, I've been doing this for 20-odd years, and while not all my archives are searchable (or even reachable), I'm not finding it. Blend of administration and trivia, and like the latter, used to take only plural verbs but singular verbs are increasingly accepted (much like data). Most dictionaries claim it was coined in the 1930s, making it older than many realize, but there are citations to US jurist Harlan Fiske Stone using it in 1922 to describe running Columbia Law School (before becoming Attorney General and then a Supreme Court Justice).
---L.
Surely I've run this before? I mean, I've been doing this for 20-odd years, and while not all my archives are searchable (or even reachable), I'm not finding it. Blend of administration and trivia, and like the latter, used to take only plural verbs but singular verbs are increasingly accepted (much like data). Most dictionaries claim it was coined in the 1930s, making it older than many realize, but there are citations to US jurist Harlan Fiske Stone using it in 1922 to describe running Columbia Law School (before becoming Attorney General and then a Supreme Court Justice).
---L.
