government
government Lexical Profile
government Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The group of people, institutions, and offices vested with the authority to govern a country, state, or community and administer its public policy.
"The national government announced a new infrastructure budget to repair aging bridges and highways."
The system, form, or manner of political rule and administrative control by which a state or organization is governed.
"Students in the civics course compared representative democracy with other historical forms of government."
The academic study of political science, public administration, and civic institutions.
"She decided to major in government and economics before applying to law school."
In grammar, the syntactic relationship in which one word, such as a verb or preposition, requires another word to take a specific morphological case.
"In Latin syntax, the government of the ablative case by certain prepositions must be memorized carefully."
Word Nuance & Usage
In British English, 'government' is frequently treated as a plural collective noun when emphasizing the actions of its individual members, whereas in American English it almost exclusively takes a singular verb.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French 'governement', from 'governer' (to steer or rule), which traces back to the Latin 'gubernare' and ultimately to the Ancient Greek 'kybernan' (to steer or pilot a ship).