A female administrator or woman who manages an organization or system.
From administrator + -ess suffix (feminine form). Common in 18th-19th century English before gender-neutral language became standard.
Words like 'administratress,' 'poetess,' and 'actress' show how English once regularly added -ess to mark women, but we've mostly moved to using the base word for all genders today.
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