英语词汇“government”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	government
释义	gov·ern·ment \ˈgə]və(r)mənt, ]və(r)nm-, ]v(^ə)m-, ]b(^ə)m-\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle French governement, from governer to govern + -ment 1. obsolete a. : management of the limbs or the whole body < shot many a dart at me … but I them warded all with wary government — Edmund Spenser > b. : moral conduct or behavior : discretion < harsh rage, defect of manners, want of government — Shakespeare > 2. : the act or process of governing : authoritative direction or control < to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces — U.S. Constitution > < unusual talent for the instruction and government of the young — S.P.Chase & J.K.Snyder > 3. a. : the office, authority, or function of governing < the government I cast upon my brother and to my state grew stranger — Shakespeare > < persuaded … to accept the government of Dover Castle — James Tyrrell > b. obsolete : the term during which a governing official holds office < his fact, till now in the government of Lord Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof — Shakespeare > 4. archaic : an area organized as a political unit; especially : a territorial division ruled by a governor < I pass'd through most of the Protestant governments in Europe — Joseph Addison > < the czar … divided the empire into eight governments — Charles Whitworth > 5. a. : the influence of one word on another word that is required to be in a certain case or mood when it occurs in the same construction — called also regimen b. : the effect of this influence 6. a. : the continuous exercise of authority over and the performance of functions for a political unit : rule < the end of government is the good of mankind — John Locke > < constitutional government does not exist unless procedural restraints are established — C.J.Friedrich > < before the fourteenth century … government had meant very largely the administration of justice — Christopher Morris > < he was active in school government — Current Biography > b. : the political function of policy making as distinguished from the administration of policy decisions 7. a. : the organization, machinery, or agency through which a political unit exercises authority and performs functions and which is usually classified according to the distribution of power within it < the distinction between constitutional and absolute governments — G.H.Sabine > < framing a government which is to be administered by men over men — James Madison > < the great growth of the national government — W.S.Sayre > < advanced through the ranks of his church's government — Current Biography > < industrial capitalism … created clusters of private government — R.J.Harris > — see aristocracy 2a, democracy 1b, dictatorship 3, monarchy, oligarchy, republic, tyranny b. : the complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out in a specific political unit < the shifting of functions … which has characterized American government — C.F.Snider > < students of French government > < an attempt to derive information about trade-union government — Times Literary Supplement > 8. : the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization: as a. : the officials collectively comprising the governing body of a political unit and constituting the organization as an active agency < a world in which governments … are highly and effectively resolved to work together — F.D.Roosevelt > < the government had succeeded in transporting … tons of equipment inland — Wendell Willkie > < correspondence … that passed between the American government and the German government — Chicago Daily News > b. usually capitalized : the executive branch of the United States federal government including the political officials and usually the permanent civil service employees : administration 6a < the senator's treatment of Government witnesses before the committee > < the Government's case was argued before the Supreme Court > c. usually capitalized : a small group of persons holding simultaneously the principal political executive offices of a nation or other political unit and responsible for the direction and supervision of public affairs: (1) : such a group in a parliamentary system constituted by the cabinet or by the ministry < His Majesty's Government feel they have the right to know where they stand with the House of Commons — Sir Winston Churchill > < the typical opposition maneuver designed to embarrass the Government — H.L.Bretton > < apart from providing a Government, the main functions of the New Zealand Parliament are firstly to legislate — Walter Nash > (2) : administration 6b 9. : political science < the other social sciences including economics and government — Weston La Barre > 10. : a security (as a bond) issued by or on behalf of the United States government — usually used in plural < reserves in the form of cash or governments — G.A.Mooney >
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