government
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
government /ˈgʌv(ə)nˌm(ə)nt, ˈgʌvəm(ə)nt/
▶noun
- 1 [treated as sing. or pl.] the governing body of a state.
■ the system by which a state or community is governed.
■ the action or manner of governing a state, organization, or people.
- 2 Grammar the relation between a governed and a governing word.
– derivatives
governmental adjective,
governmentally adverb.
governmental adjective,
governmentally adverb.
'government' also found in these Oxford entries:
academy
- administration
- Admiralty
- agency
- agent
- anarchism
- anarchy
- apparatus
- -archy
- aristocracy
- arrondissement
- Attorney General
- autocracy
- autonomy
- backbencher
- black and tan
- black economy
- blue book
- Board of Trade
- Bonapartism
- bond
- brains trust
- bureau
- bureaucracy
- bureaucrat
- by-election
- cabildo
- cabinet
- capital
- caretaker
- central bank
- chancellor
- Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- charge-cap
- Citizen's Charter
- cleansing department
- clipper
- coalition
- Command Paper
- commissar
- commissariat
- commonwealth
- commune
- concordat
- Consols
- constitutionalism
- consulate
- contra
- corridor
- country
