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government
/ˈɡʌv.ɚ(n).mənt/
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What does government mean?
noun
- The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
- The relationship between a word and its dependents.
- The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
More meanings (6)
noun
- The management or control of a system.
- The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
- In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.
- The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
- A guberniya.
- Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɡʌv.ɚ(n).mənt/
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Numerical estimates of Albanian economic activity are subject to an especially wide margin of error because the government is isolated and closemouthed.
They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided.
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Evidently, however, the representative of the French Government had nothing to fear for the moment, at the hands of his powerful adversary.
These are divided into tracts of about the same size, each tract being under the supervision of one or more government officers.
The three departments of the government is the President rules the world, the governor rules the State, the mayor rules the city.