The phrase "administrative backbone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the essential support structure or system that facilitates administrative functions within an organization.
Example: "The new software will serve as the administrative backbone of our operations, streamlining processes and improving efficiency."
Alternatives: "administrative framework" or "operational foundation".
"He has been the administrative backbone.
"They had every reason to believe that if it wasn't them, it would be people like them who would have to provide the administrative backbone," Korr said.
Yet the remark also seemed profoundly out of touch with the undercurrent of unease that was building most clearly among the professionals who provide the intellectual and administrative backbone of the British state and wider society.
For the past three decades, Walter has overseen the orientation and onboarding of newly elected presidents, officers and directors of the Club, and has served as the administrative backbone of this vibrant organization.
Celebrated as the "island of love" by smitten French explorers, Tahiti is the French territory's administrative and commercial backbone.
The live-ins are the resident counselors at The Bridge, serving as the administrative and counseling leadership, and the backbone of our 24-hour counseling service.
During his short stint in the White House, Bannon lobbied hard for the positions that formed the editorial backbone of Breitbart — anti-establishment, anti-globalist, anti-administrative state, anti-comprehensive immigration reform, anti-a lot of things.
The service our software provides is the administrative foundation that businesses need in order to survive, which means we're the backbone of a lot of businesses.
White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has said that "deconstructing the administrative state" is one of his top three goals, and regulatory commissions are the backbone of the administrative state.
Administrative services, education systems, railway stations with flower boxes and army officers with pencil-thin mustaches and ramrod backbones bore more than a hint of the British Raj for longer than many expected.
