Timeline for Is "administrate" a valid English verb? What's the difference between it and "administer"?
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| Mar 5, 2016 at 14:47 | comment | added | James McLeod | If I were to do this again, I would add the info as a comment, or flesh it out to be a real answer. | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 11:27 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I downvoted for the lack of evidence in your answer (a link is insufficient), but the 'is an exact synonym' warrants its own downvote. There are enough Google hits for "administer diamorphine" to consider it as an acceptable usage, but the one hit for "administrate diamorphine" does not license this usage. The fact that a dictionary defines a word using a synonym does not mean that it is saying that the two words are freely interchangeable; this is rarely (if ever) the case. | |
| Mar 1, 2011 at 3:44 | comment | added | gpr | +1, just because I assumed it was some irritating back-formation and now stand corrected :) | |
| Mar 1, 2011 at 2:35 | history | answered | James McLeod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |