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government

[ guhv-ern-muhnt, ‑e-uhnt ]

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)
    1. the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time:

      The prime minister has formed a new government.

    2. 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.
  8. 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.



government

/ ˌɡʌvəˈmɛntəl; ˌɡʌvənˈmɛntəl; ˈɡʌvənmənt; ˈɡʌvəmənt /

noun

  1. the exercise of political authority over the actions, affairs, etc, of a political unit, people, etc, as well as the performance of certain functions for this unit or body; the action of governing; political rule and administration
  2. the system or form by which a community, etc, is ruled

    tyrannical government

    1. the executive policy-making body of a political unit, community, etc; ministry or administration

      yesterday we got a new government

    2. ( capital when of a specific country )

      the British Government

    1. the state and its administration

      blame it on the government

    2. ( as modifier )

      a government agency

  3. regulation; direction
  4. grammar the determination of the form of one word by another word
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Grammar Note

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Pronunciation Note

Normal phonological processes are reflected in a variety of pronunciations for government. Most commonly, the first [n] of [guhv, -ern-m, uh, nt] assimilates to the immediately following [m], with the resulting identical nasal sounds coalescing to give the pronunciation [guhv, -er-m, uh, nt]. 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, -m, uh, nt] or, with loss of the medial unstressed vowel, [guhv, -m, uh, nt]. 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, -m, uh, nt]. See isn't.
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Derived Forms

  • governmental, adjective
  • ˌDZˈԳٲ, adverb
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Other yvlog Forms

  • DZ···ٲ [guhv-ern-, men, -tl, ‑er-, men, ‑], adjective
  • DZe·t· adverb
  • dzܲt·DZe·Գ noun
  • ԴDz·DZİ·Գ noun
  • ԴDzgDZ··t adjective
  • -DZİ·Գ adjective
  • ·DZİ·Գ noun
  • i·DZe·t adjective
  • semi·DZe·t· adverb
  • ܲ·DZİ·Գ noun
  • ܲd·DZİ·Գ noun
  • ܲgDZ··t adjective
  • ܲgDZ··t·ly adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of government1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Old French word governement. See govern, -ment
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