Admin

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  admin /ad-min'/ n. Short for `administrator'; very commonly used in
     speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a
     computer. Common constructions on this include `sysadmin' and `site
     admin' (emphasizing the administrator's role as a site contact for email
     and news) or `newsadmin' (focusing specifically on news). Compare
     {postmaster}, {sysop}, {system mangler}.


  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  admin
       
          {system administrator}