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    [Noun]  | "gov*ern*ment" | \ ˈgə-vər(n)-mənt \


    1: the body of persons that constitutes the governing authority of a political unit or organization: such as

    2: the officials comprising the governing body of a political unit and constituting the organization as an active agency

    3: the executive branch of the U.S. federal government


    Origin: 15th century ;

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    [Noun]  | "coun*ter*gov*ern*ment" | \ ˌkau̇n-tər-ˈgə-vər(n)-mənt \


    1: a group of people that organizes as an unofficial governing authority to oppose or supplant a legitimate or generally recognized government


    Origin: 1818 ;

    [Noun]  | "local government" 


    1: the government of a specific local area constituting a subdivision of a major political unit (such as a nation or state); also : the body of persons constituting such a government


    Origin: 1753 ;

    [Noun]  | "parliamentary government" 


    1: a system of government having the real executive power vested in a cabinet composed of members of the legislature who are individually and collectively responsible to the legislature


    Origin: 1844 ;

    [Noun]  | "presidential government" 


    1: a system of government in which the president is constitutionally independent of the legislature


    Origin: 1857 ;

    [Noun]  | "self-gov*ern*ment" | \ ˌself-ˈgə-vər(n)-mənt \


    1: self-control, self-command

    2: government under the control and direction of the inhabitants of a political unit rather than by an outside authority; broadly : control of one's own affairs


    Origin: 1622 ;

    [Noun]  | "student government" 


    1: the organization and management of student life by various student organizations


    Origin: 1882 ;

    [Noun]  | "sub*gov*ern*ment" | \ ˌsəb-ˈgə-vər(n)-mənt \


    1: a secondary or subordinate government : an informal or unofficial association of persons or institutions that exercises considerable influence on a formal government or organization


    Origin: 1841 ;

    [Noun]  | "governments" 


    1: lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation);


      * e.g., " ... government by the people, for the people "



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    2: the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something;


      * e.g., " ... a board involved in the government of the distribution of benefits to veterans "



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    [Noun]  | "government" 


    1: lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation);


      * e.g., " ... government by the people, for the people "



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    2: the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something;


      * e.g., " ... a board involved in the government of the distribution of benefits to veterans "



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    [Noun]  | "self-government" 


    1: government in which the supreme power is held by the people and used by them directly or indirectly through representation;


      * e.g., " ... self-government implies faith in the wisdom and essential goodness of the people "





    2: the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions;


      * e.g., " ... steely self-government was all that kept her from lashing out at the rude customer "



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    3: the state of being free from the control or power of another;


      * e.g., " ... championed self-government for the nation's indigenous peoples "



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     [ "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. 

     [ "Governator" ]

    1: Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), the bodybuilder/actor-turned-38th Governor of California, who in a recall eleciton terminated the governorship of Gray Davis (D), a colorless, unmuscular technocrat who who was often teased at the beach by the fit.

      * e.g.,  ... November 18, 200 SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in today as the governor of California. Following his inauguration, the Governator called a special session of the legislature and announced plans to snap the state's mammoth budget deficit between his pectoral muscles. 


     [ "Governator" ]

    2: note: "Governator" is a proper noun, and therefore is capitalized and usually modified with a definite article.

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