central governmentnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌsen.trəl ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/us/ˌsen.trəl ˈɡʌv.ɚn.mənt/national government from a single important city rather than local government
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- despot
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
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Examples from literature
- It is evident that a central government acquires immense power when united to administrative centralization.
- It was thought by many that there should be some powerful central government to control all the States.
- The central government exempted the Roman citizen who settled in a provincial town from the local taxes.
- The central government is to bear twenty-five percent of the cost of equipment and lend another twenty-five percent to start the enterprise.
- They are divided into several independent bands, united under no central government, and acknowledge no common head.