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government

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a coalition government ▪ There is little enthusiasm among voters for a coalition government. a government commission ▪ A government commission regulates the process. a government department ▪ The Home Office is the government ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A government is the system by which a state or community is controlled. In the case of this broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators , administrators , and arbitrators . Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "act of governing or ruling;" 1550s, "system by which a thing is governed" (especially a state), from Old French governement (Modern French gouvernement ), from governer (see govern ). Replaced Middle English governance . Meaning "governing power" ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Government \Gov"ern*ment\, n. [F. gouvernement. See Govern .] The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. The mode of governing; the system of polity ...

Usage examples of government.

Hitler and Mussolini was dead, but a new form of it was condoned and abetted abroad by the United States government.

I mean, our own government had terrible policies for Aboriginal people.

It has been subsequently held many times that municipal corporations are mere instrumentalities of the State for the more convenient administration of local governments, whose powers may be enlarged, abridged, or entirely withdrawn at the pleasure of the legislature.

In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers except the legislative boldly advocated, with labored arguments to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.

In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage, and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers, except the legislature, boldly advocated, with labored argument to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.

Republican Palace and the complex of government buildings and luxury villas that abutted the Tigris River, thus seizing the administrative heart of the capital.

It was all a great big carnival freak show The federal government was the Man with One Hundred Arms, and Glenn Abies was the barker.

Kentucky might have been to accede to the proposition of General Polk, and which from his knowledge of the views of his own Government he was fully justified in offering, the State of Kentucky had no power, moral or physical, to prevent the United States Government from using her soil as best might suit its purposes in the war it was waging for the subjugation of the seceded States.

Which implies, I hope, that what we need is more citizen activation and less government efforts at achieving their objectives for them.

You may, therefore, comprehend, that being of no country, asking no protection from any government, acknowledging no man as my brother, not one of the scruples that arrest the powerful, or the obstacles which paralyze the weak, paralyzes or arrests me.

I exerted all my efforts to acquaint the French Government with what was passing on the Spree.

If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease.

The new liberal constitution of Venezuela having gone into effect with the universal acquiescence of the people, the government under it has been recognized and diplomatic intercourse with it has opened in a cordial and friendly spirit.

The government resisted this, and Lord John Eussell, with a tone of ridicule and acrimony, offered the motion an ostentatious opposition.

Government in Youngstown, assuming that Congress had not acted in the latter case.