The phrase "a single administrator" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to one individual who is responsible for managing or overseeing a system, organization, or process.
Example: "In our new software system, there will be a single administrator who will handle all user accounts and permissions."
Alternatives: "one administrator" or "a sole administrator".
It would eliminate petty bureaucratic rivalries and make a single administrator accountable for the safety of America's food.
Last week's Twitter crackdown has already witnessed extremists gravitate towards Diaspora, a decentralised network with data stored on private servers which cannot be controlled by a single administrator.
Calling the Federal Election Commission a "failed agency" designed by Congress to be ineffective, a group of campaign watchdogs today proposed replacing it with an independent agency headed by a single administrator.
A group of campaign watchdogs, calling the Federal Election Commission a "failed agency" designed by Congress to be ineffective, proposed replacing it with an independent agency headed by a single administrator.
It's also adding new features — managers can now remind employees from within the app that they need to fill out their reports, and they can manage groups and questions on their own (that was previously limited to a single administrator).
Younger outfits, such as Oblix, Netegrity and Access 360, sell "permission-based" software that lets local managers feed information into a central database rather than have a single administrator track everyone.
Yet I have never seen a single university administrator try to corral faculty members into more face time at the office.
In eastern Slavonia, Cambodia and East Timor, where a single transitional administrator was responsible for both military and civilian affairs, co-ordination was much easier.International organisations are also often saddled with more bureaucratic and political constraints than individual governments.
Update: A Facebook spokesperson tells me, "Recently, several Pages made unauthorized posts as a result of actions from a single rogue administrator of these Pages.
In the wake of the Snowden revelations, the NSA took steps to limit how much access a single systems administrator can have.
And unmoderated groups — often with of tens of thousands of users interacting, sharing, and posting with one other without a single active administrator are allowed [by Facebook]," he writes.
