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The art of doing important-sounding work that produces no actual thing.
means Relating to the management, paperwork, and organization that keeps an institution running rather than its core mission.
from From Latin administrare, to manage or serve, built from ad (to) plus ministrare (to attend), the same root that gave us minister and ministry.
Buried wordHidden inside is minister, meaning servant.
Leave typeAdministrative leave often means paid suspension in disguise.
Five syllablesLength itself signals the bureaucracy it describes.