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gov⋅ern⋅ment
[guhv-ern-muh
nt, ‑er-muhnt] 
–noun
| 1. | the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society. |
| 2. | the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed: monarchical government; episcopal government. |
| 3. | the governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.; administration. |
| 4. | a branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation, taken as representing the whole: a dam built by the government. |
| 5. | (in some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom)
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| 6. | direction; control; management; rule: the government of one's conduct. |
| 7. | a district governed; province. |
| 8. | political science. |
| 9. | Grammar. the extablished usage that requires that one word in a sentence should cause another to be of a particular form: the government of the verb by its subject. |
Related forms:
gov⋅ern⋅men⋅tal [guhv-ern-men-tl, ‑er-men‑] , adjective
[guhv-ern-men-tl, ‑er-men‑] , adjective gov⋅ern⋅men⋅tal⋅ly, adverb
Pronunciation note:
Normal phonological processes are reflected in a variety of pronunciations for government. Most commonly, the first [n] of [guhv-ern-muhnt] assimilates to the immediately following [m], with the resulting identical nasal sounds coalescing to give the pronunciation [guhv-er-muhnt]. This pronunciation is considered standard and occurs throughout the U.S. For speakers in regions where postvocalic [r] is regularly lost, as along the Eastern Seaboard and in the South, the resulting pronunciation is [guhv-uh-muhnt] or, with loss of the medial unstressed vowel, [guhv-muhnt]. Further assimilation, in which the labiodental [v], in anticipation of the bilabial quality of the following [m], becomes the bilabial stop [b], leads in the South Midland and Southern U.S. to the pronunciation [guhb-muhnt]. See isn't.
Normal phonological processes are reflected in a variety of pronunciations for government. Most commonly, the first
[n] of [guhv-ern-muhnt] assimilates to the immediately following [m], with the resulting identical nasal sounds coalescing to give the pronunciation [guhv-er-muhnt]. This pronunciation is considered standard and occurs throughout the U.S. For speakers in regions where postvocalic [r] is regularly lost, as along the Eastern Seaboard and in the South, the resulting pronunciation is [guhv-uh-muhnt] or, with loss of the medial unstressed vowel, [guhv-muhnt]. Further assimilation, in which the labiodental [v], in anticipation of the bilabial quality of the following [m], becomes the bilabial stop [b], leads in the South Midland and Southern U.S. to the pronunciation [guhb-muhnt]. See isn't.
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| gov·ern·ment (gŭv'ərn-mənt) n.
Usage Note: In American usage government always takes a singular verb. In British usage government, in the sense of a governing group of officials, takes a plural verb: The government are determined to follow this course. See Usage Note at collective noun. |
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Government
Gov"ern*ment\, n. [F. gouvernement. See Govern.]1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. 2. The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law. That free government which we have so dearly purchased, free commonwealth. --Milton. 3. The right or power of governing; authority. I here resign my government to thee. --Shak. 4. The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration. When we, in England, speak of the government, we generally understand the ministers of the crown for the time being. --Mozley & W. 5. The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe. 6. Management of the limbs or body. --Shak. 7. (Gram.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.
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Language Translation for : government
Spanish:
gobierno,
German:
die Regierung,
Japanese:
政府
Main Entry: gov·ern·ment
Pronunciation: 'g&-v&r-m&nt, -v&rn-
Function: noun
1 : the act or process of governing; specifically : authoritative direction or control
2 : the office, authority, or function of governing
3 : the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit : RULE
4 a : the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it b : the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out
5 : the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization: as a : the officials comprising the governing body of a political unit and constituting the organization as an active agency b cap : the executive branch of the U.S. federal government c : the prosecution in a criminal case in its capacity as agents of the political unit
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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