Government

Noun

 * 1) The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
 * 2) A group of people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory.
 * 3) The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
 * 4)  The management or control of a system.
 * 5) The tenure of a chief of state.

Adjectives for Government
hard up; executive; tyrannical; municipal; patriarchal; long-lived; authoritarian; radical; shameful; jealous; odious; provincial; paternal; stable; supernatural; ruthless; despotic; representative; aristocratic; free; unprosperous; ephemeral; puppet; vacillating; irresponsible; legitimate; mushroom; acknowledged; ill; deceased; consular; perfidious; industrious; consolidated; constitutional; orderly; imperial; dangerous; respective; monarchial; central; moral; provisional; prudent; autonomistic; conservative; totalitarian; bankrupt.

Verbs for Government
balance—; castigate—; centralize—; control—; corrupt—; criticize—; defraud—; hoodwink—; jeopardize—; lose faith in—; maintain—; obliterate—; plot against—; preserve—; reverence—; revolt against—; surrender—to; undermine—; upbraid—; usurp—; —capitulates; —cooperates with; —crumbles; —functions; — launches; —regulates; —subsidizes; —succors; —teeters; —thrives.

Thesaurus
reign, riding, rule, running, safe hands, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, sovereignty, stake, state, steerage, steering, stewardship, superintendence, supervision, sway, talons, territory, the Crown, the Establishment, the authorities, the conn, the government, the helm, the wheel, town, township, tutelage, village, wapentake, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, wing, Geopolitik, John Bull, Kreis, Uncle Sam, Washington, Whitehall, administration, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, auspices, authority, bailiwick, bishopric, borough, canton, care, charge, city, civics, claws, clutches, command, commune, conduct, congressional district, constablewick, control, county, cure, custodianship, custody, departement, diocese, direction, disposition, district, domination, dominion, duchy, electoral district, electorate, empery, empire, geopolitics, governance, grip, guardianship, guidance, hamlet, hand, handling, hands, hundred, husbandry, international relations, iron hand, jurisdiction, keeping, lead, leading, magistracy, management, managery, managing, manipulation, metropolis, metropolitan area, ministry, oblast, okrug, ordering, oversight, parish, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, pilotage, poli-sci, political behavior, political economy, political geography, political philosophy, political science, political theory, politics, power, precinct, principality, protectorship, province, public administration, raj, regime, region, regnancy, regulation,

Alternative forms

 * gub'mint

Etymology
From governement:, <, <  gubernatio:, <  κυβερνισμός:, κυβέρνησις:, < κυβερνάω: + -ment:.

Derived terms

 * branch of government
 * close enough for government work
 * federal government
 * government agent
 * government bond
 * government-censored
 * government cheese
 * government debt
 * government house
 * government issue
 * government man
 * government note
 * government purchases
 * government security
 * government stroke
 * government wharf
 * governmental


 * governmentese
 * governmentwide
 * head of government
 * in government
 * local government
 * military government
 * minority government
 * municipal government
 * non-government
 * parliamentary government
 * petticoat government
 * puppet government
 * representative government
 * seat of government
 * self-government
 * shadow government
 * unitary government

Related terms

 * govern
 * governance
 * governor

Translations

 * Afrikaans: regering
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መንግስት (mengist)
 * Arabic: حكومة
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri: dövlət, hökümət
 * Belarusian: урад / ўрад
 * Bengali: সরকার
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: gouarnamant, gouarnamantoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: govern
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 政府
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, registara
 * Finnish: hallitus, hallinto, valtiojohto
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: ממשלה
 * Hindi: सरकार
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: guberno,
 * Indonesian: pemerintah
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: រដ្ឋាភិបាល
 * Korean: 정부 (政府)


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: حوکمه‌ت
 * Latin: administratio, gubernatio
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: vyriausybė, valdžia
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സര്‍ക്കാര് (sarkkaaru)
 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: دولت, حکومت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: guvern
 * Russian: правительство
 * Scottish Gaelic: riaghaltas, riaghladh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: влада
 * Roman: vlada
 * Slovak: vláda
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ప్రభుత్వం (prabhutvaM), సర్కారు (sarkaaru)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: hükümet, devlet
 * Ukrainian: уряд
 * Urdu: حکومت, سرکار
 * Vietnamese: (政府)
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: regear