Meanings
- uncountableOne's personal chores of an administrative nature, such as household management, making appointments, managing insurance or responding to e-mails.
According to one 2018 survey of 2,000 Brits, the average adult carries out 109 life admin tasks a year, from sorting out car insurance to paying council tax; about half the respondents admitted they struggled to keep up with household paperwork.
2019, Alexandra Jones, “'I feel bombarded with to-dos': the hell of life admin – and how to get on top”, in The Guardian1 more example
Some life admin involves doing the same things that are done in an office. Other admin is merely analogous to office work. For instance, making a grocery list or planning a child's birthday party is not precisely an activity that would be done in the workplace.
2019, Elizabeth F. Emens, Life Admin: How I Learned to Do Less, Do Better, and Live More, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 8
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