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hallinto — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • administration noun The management of an organization, business, or set of tasks.
  • governance noun The system, process, or authority by which an organization or country is directed and controlled.
  • government noun The group of people with the authority to run a country, state or other area, who make and enforce its laws and policies.
  • management noun The process of planning, organizing, and directing resources or people to achieve a goal.
  • polity noun Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
  • regime noun A government in power, especially one seen as authoritarian.

Senses

hallinto is used for these senses in English:

  • administration (uncountable) The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction.
  • administration (countable, government, politics) The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are entrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.
  • governance The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
  • governance The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
  • governance The group of people who make up an administrative body.
  • government The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
  • polity (politics, religion, usually, uncountable) Organizational structure and governance, especially of a state or a religion.
  • regime Mode of rule or management.

administration — full definition

  1. noun The management of an organization, business, or set of tasks.
  2. noun The government of a country during a particular leader's term, or the officials who run it.

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