administrative
The process would be very complicated administratively.
He likes how the school is organized administratively.
Usually, illegal immigrants are fingerprinted, administratively processed and dropped off at the border.

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administratively | Business English

administratively
adverb
uk /ədˈmɪnɪstrətɪvli/ us /ədˈmɪnɪˌstreɪtɪvli/
according to the way something is managed or organized:
Administratively, it might be difficult to give a test in two parts.
It gives refunds by the administratively easy route of taking less under your direct debits.

Examples of administratively

administratively
The same applies when farmers are restricted (administratively) in their crop selection or are limited in the quantity to produce because of marketing restrictions.
The application procedure for survey licences cannot be so administratively complicated that it discourages research institutions from applying for a survey licence.
Under carve-out plans, mental health insurance coverage is financially and administratively separated from physical health coverage.
These costs fall on top of what many argue is already an administratively burdensome system.
Both themes reflect the expected response by administratively decentralized bodies to external pressure to improve their quality of service and efficiency of performance.
Its other side, the state that ruled over subjects, was a regime of extra-economic coercion and administratively driven justice.
These botanists were now in senior positions, both administratively and intellectually.
The health services are decentralized politically, administratively, and financially.
These data are in administratively releasable format, with all personal patient and physician identifiers removed.
But it was clearly administratively complex and politically risky.
It is administratively most difficult to prevent a wife obtaining non-pregnancy payments although married to a husband who has been sterilized.
Moreover, age limits avoid the use of expensive, psychologically-taxing, stigmatising and administratively-cumbrous procedures.
So long as language and literature are coupled administratively, it is obviously important for the relationship to be as productive as possible.
The judicial branch should also be financially and administratively independent from executive branch control.
But, surely, to do so would be administratively impossible.
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