administrative decision

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meanings of administrative and decision

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administrative
adjective
uk
/ədˈmɪn.ɪ.strə.tɪv/
us
/ædˈmɪn.ɪˌstreɪ.t̬ɪv/
relating to the arrangements and work that is needed to control the operation of a plan ...
decision
noun
uk
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
us
/dɪˈsɪʒ.ən/
a choice that you make about something after thinking about ...

(Definition of administrative and decision from the Cambridge English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of administrative decision

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However, their influence on administrative decision-making is quite limited.
And the township government shall then make an administrative decision on the issue.
Procedural openness refers to structures and guidelines executive agencies must follow that open the administrative decision-making process to public scrutiny and participation.
Why has this administrative decision of six months been made, of which there is no notification whatever in the scheme to employers and men concerned?
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This is not a matter of administrative decision but of law and there is no clear definition of it.
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All those changes have to be subject to administrative decision.
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There is no rational justification for removal of the right of appeal against an administrative decision.
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Only this week they have made an administrative decision which will further damage unemployed people.
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It would not do so because that would be to arrogate to itself a political and administrative decision.
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An administrative decision is to be taken as to which grant shall be paid to which person, and which shall not.
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A child in this position may be locked up—there is no other way to describe it—on the basis of an administrative decision.
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It is an administrative decision; it is a condition of the benefit and is attached to it.
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I submit that it would be quite inappropriate for a legislative chamber to take that kind of administrative decision into its own hands.
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But there is no question of appeal against the administrative decision of some civil servant or other.
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Are we to retain the prima facie rule or are we to have an administrative decision?
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The judicial review remains a possibility for anyone who seeks to use it in relation to an administrative decision.
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I am not very happy about appeals from a local authority to a magistrate on a matter of a policy decision or an administrative decision.
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It should not be left to an administrative decision of some kind.
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It also recommended that the authority of the new body should be derived from the legislature, rather than solely from an administrative decision.
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