Meaning of government | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
   countable, uncountable
2. Govern.
3. the theory and exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government. See also autarchy, autocracy, despotism, dictatorship, monarchy, oligarchy. — absolutist, n., adj. — absolutistic. adj.
4. first-person singular present indicative of gobernar
5. The relationship between a word and its dependents.
   countable, uncountable
6. Exercise of the government.
7. an absence of government and law; political disorder, often accompanied by violence. See also order and disorder.
8. The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
   countable, uncountable
9. Ministry of the Government.
10. rule by angels.
11. The management or control of a system.
    uncountable
12. Rare. the principle of opposition to all forms of government, or to all restraint of individuals by laws. — antarchist, n. — antarchistic, adj.
13. The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
    countable, uncountable
14. the policy of strict racial segregation and political and economie discrimination against non-whites practiced in the Republic of South Africa.
15. In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.
    countable, uncountable
16. rule by that group which holds the numerical majority in a state. — arithmocratic, adj.
17. The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
    countable, uncountable
18. the rule of a nation, state, or community by two persons.
19. Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
20. the state of being composed of members of two parties or of two parties cooperating, as in government. — bipartisan, adj.
21. the domination of areas in Spanish and Latin America by local political bosses. Also caciquismo.
22. the practices of the carpetbaggers, Northerners who, after the Civil War, sought private gain in the South from the Reconstruction government. — carpetbaggery, n.

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Examples

“British government has historically centred exclusively on London.”

“[…]and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.”

“Near-synonyms: state, administration”

“If the citizens must follow the law, then the government must follow the constitution.”

“Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.”

“The government of the Church is maintained without material alteration in a settled hierarchical form.”

“Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the government of Her Majesty's Navy, whereon, under the good Providence of God, the wealth, safety and strength of the Kingdom so much depend:”

“Ainsi, dans une société donnée, l’autorité de l’homme sur l’homme est en raison inverse du développement intellectuel auquel cette société est parvenue, et la durée probable de cette autorité peut être calculée sur le désir plus ou moins général d’un gouvernement vrai, c’est-à-dire, d’un gouvernement selon la science.”

“The Sunak government announced plans to stem the flow of migrants coming into Great Britain.”

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