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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>admin</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="adger.html" title="adger"/><link rel="next" href="ADVENT.html" title="ADVENT"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">admin</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="adger.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ADVENT.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="admin"/><dt xmlns="" id="admin"><b>admin</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ad·min´/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Short for ‘administrator’; very commonly used in speech
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or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common
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constructions on this include <span class="firstterm">sysadmin</span> and <span class="firstterm">site
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admin</span> (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact
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for email and news) or <span class="firstterm">newsadmin</span>
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(focusing specifically on news). Compare
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<a href="../P/postmaster.html"><i class="glossterm">postmaster</i></a>, <a href="../S/sysop.html"><i class="glossterm">sysop</i></a>,
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<a href="../S/system-mangler.html"><i class="glossterm">system mangler</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="adger.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ADVENT.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">adger </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> ADVENT</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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