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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024gov•ern•ment /ˈgʌvɚnmənt, -ɚmənt/USA pronunciation n. - Government[uncountable] the political system by which direction and control over the actions of the members or citizens of a community, society, state, etc., is exercised; the direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.
- Government[countable* usually singular;
the + ~] the governing body of persons in a state, community, etc. or a branch of this body. - Government[countable] (in some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom)
- the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time:The Prime Minister has formed a new government.
- the parliament along with the cabinet.
- [uncountable] direction;
control;
management;
rule.
gov•ern•men•tal /ˌgʌvɚnˈmɛntəl, ˌgʌvɚ-/USA pronunciation adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024gov•ern•ment (guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation n. - Governmentthe political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.;
political administration:Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society. - Governmentthe form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed: monarchical government;
episcopal government. - Governmentthe governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.;
administration. - Governmenta branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation, taken as representing the whole:a dam built by the government.
- Government(in some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom)
- the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time: The Prime Minister has formed a new government.
- the parliament along with the cabinet:The government has fallen.
- direction;
control;
management;
rule:the government of one's conduct. - Governmenta district governed;
province. - GovernmentSee political science.
- Grammarthe extablished usage that requires that one word in a sentence should cause another to be of a particular form:the government of the verb by its subject.
- Old French governement. See govern, -ment
- Middle English 1350–1400
Normal phonological processes are reflected in a variety of pronunciations for government. Most commonly, the first (n)USA pronunciation of (guv′ərn mənt)USA pronunciation assimilates to the immediately following (m),USA pronunciation with the resulting identical nasal sounds coalescing to give the pronunciation (guv′ər mənt).USA pronunciation This pronunciation is considered standard and occurs throughout the U.S. For speakers in regions where postvocalic (r)USA pronunciation is regularly lost, as along the Eastern Seaboard and in the South, the resulting pronunciation is (guv′ə mənt)USA pronunciation or, with loss of the medial unstressed vowel, (guv′mənt).USA pronunciation Further assimilation, in which the labiodental (v),USA pronunciation in anticipation of the bilabial quality of the following (m),USA pronunciation becomes the bilabial stop (b),USA pronunciation leads in the South Midland and Southern U.S. to the pronunciation (gub′mənt).USA pronunciation See isn't. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: government /ˈɡʌvənmənt; ˈɡʌvəmənt/ n - the exercise of political authority over the actions, affairs, etc, of a political unit, people, etc, as well as the performance of certain functions for this unit or body; the action of governing; political rule and administration
- the system or form by which a community, etc, is ruled: tyrannical government
- the executive policy-making body of a political unit, community, etc; ministry or administration
- (capital when of a specific country): the British Government
- the state and its administration: blame it on the government
- (as modifier): a government agency
- regulation; direction
- the determination of the form of one word by another word
governmental /ˌɡʌvənˈmɛntəl; ˌɡʌvəˈmɛntəl/ adj ˌgovernˈmentally adv |