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    [Verb]  | "gov*ern" | \ ˈgə-vərn \


    1: to exercise continuous sovereign authority over; especially : to control and direct the making and administration of policy in

    2: to rule without sovereign power and usually without having the authority to determine basic policy

    3: manipulate


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, from Anglo-French governer, from Latin gubernare to steer, govern, from Greek kybernan;

    [Adjective]  | "self-gov*erned" | \ ˌself-ˈgə-vərnd \


    1: not influenced or controlled by others

    2: exercising self-control


    Origin: 1709 ;

    [Adjective]  | "governed" 


    [Adjective]  | "self-governed" 


    1: not being under the rule or control of another;


      * e.g., " ... far beyond the reach of civil or military authorities, the settlers on the frontier were essentially self-governed "





    [Verb]  | "governed" 


    1: to exercise authority or power over;


      * e.g., " ... the president is elected in order to govern the country, not to follow public opinion polls "



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    •  lost





    2: to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression);


      * e.g., " ... you need to govern your speech and be able to communicate your outrage without resorting to profanity "



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    3: to look after and make decisions about;


      * e.g., " ... the company's finances are governed by its chief financial officer "



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    [Verb]  | "govern" 


    1: to exercise authority or power over;


      * e.g., " ... the president is elected in order to govern the country, not to follow public opinion polls "



    •  Antonyms : 

    •  lose





    2: to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression);


      * e.g., " ... you need to govern your speech and be able to communicate your outrage without resorting to profanity "



    •  Antonyms : 

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    3: to look after and make decisions about;


      * e.g., " ... the company's finances are governed by its chief financial officer "



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     [ "governed" ]

    1: "To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harrassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."

      * e.g.,  ... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..." 


     [ "governed" ]

    2: --Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

     [ "governator" ]

    1: A machine sent back in time to terminate Gray Davis and become GOVERNER of CALEEFORNIA.

      * e.g.,  ... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is...THE GOVERNATOR 

     [ "Governer" ]

    1: That guy in the group who skips the plan in the last minute

      * e.g.,  ... Please confirm if you are really coming. Dont be a governer tomorrow. 

     [ "governator" ]

    1: Half governor, half cyborg... a hyper-alloy combat chasis surrounded by living tissue, sent back by Skynet to become the governor of California.

      * e.g.,  ... "That Governator is out there, it can't be bargined with, it can't be resoned with, and it will not stop, ever... until he is elected." 

     [ "government" ]

    1: the government is you and me and you've all been trained to forget that by the ones pretending to be our masters!

      * e.g.,  ... The government is us; we are the government, you and I -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States. 


     [ "government" ]

    2: turn off the television! it's only there to distract you and to make your mind up for you!

      * e.g.,  ... it's still we the people... not we the IRS, not we the Bush Administration! YOU AND ME AND DON'T LET THEM FORGET THAT!!! 


     [ "government" ]

    3: They've been telling us how it's going to be... wait a second! were supposed to be doing that!

     [ "Government" ]

    1: Something which always has too many flaws and is never perfect

      * e.g.,  ... What would happen under certain governments; 

     [ "government" ]

    1: a person's legal name, as opposed to an A.K.A. or nickname, the avoidance of which is usually preferred by those involved in illegal business.

      * e.g.,  ... "don't be using my government out here in the street like that" 

     [ "Government" ]

    1: A system that contains people that controls a state, a city or a country. However, governments can easily become corrupt since most of the people in office are control freaks and work long and hard to take away the rights and freedoms of the people that they supposedly serve. They normally give out the excuse that they are protecting the public when in reality they are all psychopaths, liars and control freaks. They take away freedoms on a yearly and sometimes monthly basis when they could be doing things such as solving problems such as murders, kidnappings, and homelessness. Ironically, humans are not the only ones with governments, animals also have governments as well and the animals run their governments a lot more efficiently than any human can run theirs. For example, ants make sure that every member of their colony is fed and this includes their larvae or babies. Wasps do the same and bees also. This means that despite humans claiming that they're the smartest animals around, they are so idiotic that they are unable to run a system correctly.

      * e.g.,  ... A government is a pile of crap system that controls a country and the people are paranoid, power hungry control freaks that love taking away the rights of the citizens. 

     [ "government" ]

    1: The government is an entity inside a nation (or in the case of federations, a lesser being) that is tasked for running said entity. In forms such as democracy, the government is chosen by the people, while other forms can hold more tyrannical leanings, in which a small amount of the population runs the nation.

      * e.g.,  ... " let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us " - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, July 9th, 1938, Marietta Ohio 

     [ "the government" ]

    1: A large organization which rules over a country. Usually paractices extortion and other such forms of opression.

      * e.g.,  ... The government took my belongings because I refused to let them steal my money. 

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