Results for government

Definitions of government:

part of speech: adjective

Governmental.

part of speech: adjective

Of or pursued by government.

part of speech: noun

The act of administering or ruling; administration of public affairs; as, rightecus government; established state or legal authority; self- control.

part of speech: noun

Control; restraint; the exercise of authority; the ruling power in a state; the principle or system under which a state is ruled.

part of speech: adjective

Connected with or pursued by government.

part of speech: noun

A ruling or managing: control: system of governing: the persons authorized to administer the laws: the territory over which sovereign power extends: ( gram.) the power of one word in determining the form of another.

Usage examples for government:

• So after a while he spoke out, as if to himself but so that all could hear him: " If I were the Government I would allow Fatma to go." "In Desert and Wilderness", Henryk Sienkiewicz

• The Government was almost helpless. "A History of the Third French Republic", C. H. C. Wright

• But they will give us up to the Government which will order us to be hung. "In Desert and Wilderness", Henryk Sienkiewicz

• He saved for my mother some of her money so the government did not get it. "The Eye of Dread", Payne Erskine