administrivia
plural noun
The mundane details involved in running an organization or executing a process: “I encouraged her to try online dating, which produced for her a summer of e-mail administrivia” (Kirsten Allen Major).
Origin of administrivia
Blend of administration or administrative and trivia.administrivia
Noun
(plural administrivia)
- Administrative details that must be dealt with in order to do more interesting work.
- Administrivia take up two hours of every day.
- Administrivia takes up two hours of every day.
Usage notes
- Grammatical aspects of the usage of administrivia derive from those that apply to trivia. Formerly trivia, as a derivative of a Latin plural, required a plural verb, as in the first usage example above. Most modern authorities accept the usage in the second usage example. In the US the second usage may be preferred. Compare other Latin plurals such as data.
Origin
Blend of administrative and trivia; 1930s US.
administrivia - Computer Definition
(ADMINIStrative TRIVIA) The inordinate amount of technical detail required to manage a local area network (LAN) in a large company.
