ETYM Latin administrativus: cf. French administratif.
Of or relating to or responsible for administration.

Of or designating work or workers of relatively high status whose duties call for well-groomed appearance.

ETYM French division, Latin divisio, from dividere. Related to Divide.
1. Separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart; SYN. partition, partitioning, segmentation, subdivision, sectionalization.
2. The act or process of dividing or splitting.
3. (Biology) A group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category.
4. (Botany) Taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum.
5. An administrative unit in government or business.
6. An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed.
7. Discord that splits a group; SYN. variance.
8. An army unit large enough to sustain combat.
9. A group of ships of similar type.
10. A unit of the US air force usually comprising two or more wings.

Work that involves handling papers: forms or letters or reports etc.
Routine clerical or record-keeping work often incidental to a more important task

ETYM Written also walla.
(Anglo-Indian) person employed in certain capacity or connected with a certain thing or activity; -worker; -carrier.(India) Usually in combination with another noun: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing:.

Those having professions free of hard labor, office and professional workers, managerial and clerical apparatus