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administrativamente

administratively

adverb ahd-mee-nees-trah-TEE-bah-men-teh Rare

Usage Note

Administrativamente qualifies actions carried out through official administrative channels or procedures. It is a long -mente adverb, formed from administrativo + -mente; in Spanish, when two -mente adverbs appear in a list, only the last takes the suffix (legal y administrativamente). Almost exclusively formal or bureaucratic register.

Examples

"El asunto se resolvió administrativamente."

Natural Translation

The matter was resolved administratively.

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