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admin
/admin/ , n. Short for administrator ; very commonly used in speech or
on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common
constructions on this include sysadmin and site admin (emphasizing the
administrator's role as a site contact for email and news) or newsadmin
(focusing specifically on news). Compare postmaster , sysop , system
mangler.