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1.
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.
EXPAND(in some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom)
a.
the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time: The Prime Minister has formed a new government.
b.
the parliament along with the cabinet: The government has fallen.
6.
direction; control; management; rule: the government of one's conduct.
7.
a district governed; province.
9.
COLLAPSERelated forms
gov·ern·men·tal·ly, adverb
coun·ter·gov·ern·ment, noun
non·gov·ern·ment, noun
non·gov·ern·men·tal, adjective
EXPANDpro-gov·ern·ment, adjective
re·gov·ern·ment, noun
sem·i·gov·ern·men·tal, adjective
sem·i·gov·ern·men·tal·ly, adverb
sub·gov·ern·ment, noun
un·der·gov·ern·ment, noun
un·gov·ern·men·tal, adjective
un·gov·ern·men·tal·ly, adverb
COLLAPSEPronunciation 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. EXPANDFor 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].
COLLAPSE
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. EXPANDFor 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]. COLLAPSE
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government
1550s, "system by which a thing is governed" (especially a state), from O.Fr. governement (Mod.Fr. gouvernement), from governer (see govern). Replaced M.E. governance. Meaning "action of governing" is from 1560s; meaning "governing power" in a given place is from 1702.
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