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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



... hand over the row of books. "Mr. Smith, give the lad old Coke, yes, and Locke on Government, and put them to my account.—Where do you ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston

... government knew Earth was being threatened, and they knew they had to get as many facts as they could. They were also aware of the fact that if you know a thing can be done, then you will eventually find ...
— The Measure of a Man • Randall Garrett

... God's daylight in the year 1828, I remember, on his father's ancestral estate, in one of the most remote nooks of a remote government of the steppes. I still preserve a distinct recollection of Misha's father, Andrei Nikolaevitch Polteff. He was a genuine, old-fashioned landed proprietor, a pious inhabitant of the steppes, sufficiently well educated,—according ...
— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev

... of the shipwrecked men. Everything thus pointing to the probability of our getting away that afternoon, the provision question had to be next considered, for the party would be numerous, and the exact time our expedition would take could scarcely be correctly estimated. We knew Government would refund us for any reasonable outlay, and so determined our search should not be cut short by any scarcity of food, and our fears of overshooting the mark and laying in more than we could consume, were allayed by Mr. McB—, ...
— Australian Search Party • Charles Henry Eden

... of William Lloyd Garrison in 1843, in his successful campaign for the repeal of a similar law in Massachusetts: 'Because it is not the province, and does not belong to the power of any legislative assembly, in a republican government, to decide on the complexional affinity of those who choose to be united together in wedlock; and it may as rationally decree that corpulent and lean, tall and short, strong and weak persons shall not be married to each other as that there must be an agreement in the complexion ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson


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