1An official appointed to govern a town or region.

1. 1.1 The elected executive head of a state of the US.
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   • As governor, I promise to work with you and do whatever it takes to move our state forward, and to confront the challenges that face us.
   • There are practically no Democratic governors or senators left in the South.
   • Yet the rosters of presidential candidates in recent elections have been composed almost entirely of sitting or former senators, governors, and vice presidents.
   • A Texas governor until he was elected president in 2000, Bush was born in 1946 in Connecticut.
   • The current governor and the current representative to the U.S. House are both Democrats.
   • We elect people to be governors, to be legislators, to be presidents, we elect them because we believe in certain values that we also see that they believe in.
   • Congress would initially appoint a governor and other officials for each future state.
   • Later this year, New Jersey voters will elect a governor and both houses of the state legislature.
   • State representation, though, is guaranteed by senators and congressmen and governors are there to drive state policies.
   • Neither the president nor Congress, a state governor or state legislature can declare a law unconstitutional.
   • Since Florida's highest law grants him supreme executive power, the governor's action would be lawful.
   • He has been elected senator and governor in Indiana, a solid red state.
   • The governor responded by appointing a prominent Democrat as his new chief of staff.
   • During that time he became active in politics and was elected governor of California in 1966.
   • Of course, Hawaii did elect a Republican governor two years ago.
   • I contacted every political person I could find from the mayor to the city councilmen, the governors, the president.
   • Unlike, say, senators, who debate and vote for a living, governors are executives who create and manage real programs.
   • Since most of these states elect legislators and governors this year or next, they bear close watching as to future trends in American politics.
   • The key battleground states of Arizona and New Mexico, have elected Democratic governors since the 2000 presidential race.
   • I think those that are governors have advantages because they have actually managed budgets and set agendas, and I think this is why so many governors are elected president.
   • Presidents, governors, executives, mayors are looked to as strong and decisive.
2. 1.2 The representative of the British Crown in a colony or in a Commonwealth state that regards the monarch as head of state.
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   • They ruled their colonies through governors who obeyed orders without question.
   • It followed from this that the colonies should be granted internal self-government under a governor appointed by the Crown.
   • It is under the nominal rule of a governor general elected by Parliament to represent Queen Elizabeth II of England, the head of state.
   • The governor was always a British official dispatched from London who in turn appointed all members of the Executive and Legislative Councils.
   • Although the real power remained with the governor, this was an unprecedented move in an African colony.
   • In 1808 Sierra Leone became a British crown colony, ruled under a colonial governor.
   • Trinidad was still a British colony, run by a British governor.
   • The governors of the individual British provinces were responsible to the vicarius for the taxation in kind which the municipal councils were expected to raise from the individual taxpayer.
   • The name ‘Australia’ was formally adopted and popularized in 1817 by the British governor of the colony of New South Wales.
   • It's from here that a British governor once ruled the whole of southern Nigeria.
   • The British Crown is represented by a governor.
   • In the process, they deepened estrangement between the colonists and their British governors and taught the people that government should rest on popular consent.
   • They were exploited by the white ruling class and treated with contempt by British governors, whose fiscal policies were designed only to benefit whites.
   • Largely neglected by their British governors, they traded surpluses of livestock, wheat, and flour with Louisbourg and Boston.
   • With the transfer of the Cape to Britain in 1806, a true colonial government headed by an imperial governor and a parliamentary prime minister was installed.
   • The colonies were not democracies and the governors were not responsible to an electorate.

2The head of a public institution.

1. 2.1 A member of a governing body.
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   • The opening ceremony was also attended by school staff, governors, school sponsors, LEA members and local councillors.
   • People living in the community served by the hospital are able to become members and stand for election for the board of governors of the trust.
   • Under him was a group of appointed governors and administrators.
   • Let's begin by taking a closer look at the board of governors and what its members do.
   • The public, parents and governors also gave the thumbs to other designs on show at the school display.
   • The charter, to be signed by the schools' head teacher, chairman of governors and a representative from pupils, was presented to schools at a conference which took place in the city on Monday.
   • She attended meetings with the school, the governors and a representative from the LEA and in December 2002 managed to get two hours a day extra support for Michael in school.
   • The primary school has recently appointed two governors as press officers to promote the school.
   • Now, job creation is just one challenge facing not only administration officials, but also governors across the country.
   • The schools organisation committee, which includes councillors, school governors and church officials, is then expected to reach a decision by June 13.
   • In return, several members of Bank Indonesia's board of governors tendered their resignation.
   • The event was also attended by the principal, chair of governors and other senior staff.
   • But it is the board of directors that will exercise executive power on the governors ' behalf.
   • There is pressure to democratise the corporation, to elect its governors, to ensure it represents all shades of opinion fairly.
   • Usually a member of the board of governors is elected president of the organization.
   • Mr Baumber and the school's governors will oversee the management of the project.
   • The academy will be funded directly from the government and run independently by a board of governors, including representatives from the sponsors, businesses and the council.
   • Later, the guest joined other group members and the school's governors for lunch.
   • Council members and school governors will be required to approve the deal before it can go ahead.
   • Education chiefs have told the governors that they are valued members of the school and that eventually, once the schools have made sufficient progress, powers will be handed back to them.

3British informal The person in authority; one's employer.

4A device automatically regulating the supply of fuel, steam, or water to a machine, ensuring uniform motion or limiting speed.