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Government   /gˈəvərmənt/  /gˈəvərnmənt/   Listen
Government

noun
1.
The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.  Synonyms: authorities, regime.  "The matter was referred to higher authorities"
2.
The act of governing; exercising authority.  Synonyms: administration, governance, governing, government activity.  "He had considerable experience of government"
3.
(government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed.
4.
The study of government of states and other political units.  Synonyms: political science, politics.



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"Government" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Dominion Government has recently tried the experiment of hatching and turning out 250,000 of the small fry of the Atlantic salmon from one of their hatcheries; and, should success attend the effort, a great attraction would be added to the inland streams; but a period of some few years must naturally ...
— Fishing in British Columbia - With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina • Thomas Wilson Lambert
... most part, flies along over the heads of words, working its own mysterious way in paths that are beyond our ken, though whether some of our departmental personalities are as unconscious of what is passing, as that central government is which we alone dub with the name of "we" or "us," is a point on which I ...
— The Humour of Homer and Other Essays • Samuel Butler
... Wipo spring, a few miles northward from the eastern end of the mesa, would be an excellent site for a Government school. It is sufficiently convenient to the pueblos, has an abundant supply of potable water at all seasons, and ...
— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 • Jesse Walter Fewkes
... nothing of them," the King answered. "I understood that the firm you mention had declined the orders of the late Government." ...
— The Traitors • E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
... unfamiliar in the last Parliament, though there are not lacking signs of renewed activity since political parties changed places. Question No. 23 stood in the name of Mr. O'Donnell, and contained in his best literary style a serious indictment of M. Challemel-Lacour, just nominated by the French Government as their representative at the ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various


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