Administrative details that must be dealt with in order to do more interesting work.(noun)
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Use "administrivia" in a sentence
"If it's any comfort, the word administrivia is awesome."
"But if you don’t want to flounder in administrivia"
"You have to have lawyers and accountants to make sure you have lived up to all the local, regional, state and national "administrivia" that is required of you."