HOW TO PRONOUNCE
governance
/ˈɡʌvəɹnəns/
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What does governance mean?
noun
- The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
- The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
- The group of people who make up an administrative body.
More meanings (2)
noun
- The state of being governed.
- Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɡʌvəɹnəns/
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What, shall King Henry be a pupil still Under the surly Gloucester’s governance?
NOW shall I tell you the governance of the court of the great Chan, when he maketh solemn feasts; and that is principally four times in the year.
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On that day, when the woman takes her place beside the man in the governance and arrangement of external affairs of her race will also be that day that heralds the death of war as a means of arranging human differences.
Then he reddened, and said: "Are ye verily all such as this in this House? Who then is it who hath made so fair a lordship, and so goodly a governance for so many people? Know ye not at all of the world's ways!"
It had been gradually yielding to the better hopes which her looks, or words, or actions occasionally encouraged; it had been vanquished at last by those sentiments and those tones which had reached him while she talked with Captain Harville; and under the irresistible governance of which he had seized a sheet of paper, and poured out his feelings.