government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌvə(n)mənt/
ipa: /ˈɡəvɚ(n)mənt/
ipa: /ˈɡɐvɘ(n)mɘnt/
ipa: /ˈɡɐvmɘnt/
note: Indic, trisyllabic
ipa: /ˈɡəvə(r)(n)məɳʈ/
note: Indic, disyllabic
ipa: /ˈɡəvməɳʈ/
note: V-W merger
other: /ˈɡaʊməɳʈ/
note: V-W merger
other: [ɡɐʋ~w.məɳʈ]
note: monophthongised, rare
other: /ˈɡɔ(r)məɳʈ/
note: monophthongised, rare
other: [ɡɔː(ɾ)məɳʈ]
Forms: form: governments
form: gouernement
form: gub'mint
form: gubmint
form: gummint
form: gubbamint
form: guvmint
form: guvment
form: gumment
form: guv'ment
form: guv'mint
form: gubberment
form: gubbermint
form: gubment
form: gub'ment
form: govermint
form: guvverment
form: guvvermint
form: guverment
form: guvermint
form: gobermint
form: gormint
form: gahmen
form: gomen
Etymology: From Middle English governement, from Old French governement (modern French gouvernement), from governer (see govern) + -ment. Morphologically govern + -ment. Displaced native Old English gerec, leodweard, ræden, rǣding and ealdordōm.
Senses: examples: text: British government has historically centred exclusively on London.
text: […]and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
ref: 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bancroft_draft)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bancroft copy, page 2:
text: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
ref: 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
glosses: The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: regimen
rection
coordinate_terms: agreement
concord
concordance
glosses: The relationship between a word and its dependents.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: state, administration
text: If the citizens must follow the law, then the government must follow the constitution.
text: Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:
glosses: The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
examples: text: The government of the Church is maintained without material alteration in a settled hierarchical form.
ref: 1908, Walter Frederic Adeney, The Greek and Eastern churches, page 275:
text: Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to the government of Her Majesty's Navy, whereon, under the good Providence of God, the wealth, safety and strength of the Kingdom so much depend:
ref: 1957, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Preamble”, in Naval Discipline Act 1957, page 14:
text: Ainsi, dans une société donnée, l’autorité de l’homme sur l’homme est en raison inverse du développement intellectuel auquel cette société est parvenue, et la durée probable de cette autorité peut être calculée sur le désir plus ou moins général d’un gouvernement vrai, c’est-à-dire, d’un gouvernement selon la science.
ref: 1849 [1840], Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Chapitre V. Second Partie. § 2.”, in Qu’est ce que la propriété?, page 242; English translation from “Chapter V. Part Second. § 2.”, in Benjamin Tucker, transl., What Is Property?, translation of original in French, 1876, page 277:
glosses: The management or control of a system.
examples: text: The Sunak government announced plans to stem the flow of migrants coming into Great Britain.
glosses: The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
coordinate_terms: opposition#Noun
;
state#Noun
glosses: In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.
qualifier: debating
glosses: The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
glosses: Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government.
Synonyms: sense: administration, esp. over a country
word: administration
sense: administration, esp. over a country
word: governance
sense: administration, esp. over a country
word: management
sense: administration, esp. over a country
word: statism
word: government
Hypernyms: word: administration
Hyponyms: word: big government
word: federal government
word: government-general
word: interim government
word: invisible government
word: local government
word: majority government
word: military government
word: minority government
word: municipal government
word: parliamentary government
word: petticoat government
word: provisional government
word: puppet government
word: representative government
word: secret government
word: shadow government
word: unitary government
word: consulate
word: governate
word: eparchy
word: presidency
word: regency
word: viceroyalty
word: vizierate
word: monarchy
word: autarchy
word: autocracy
word: bigmanism
word: monocracy
word: diarchy
word: duarchy
word: biarchy
word: duumvirate
word: duopoly
word: tandemocracy
word: triarchy
word: triumvirate
word: troika
word: tetrarchy
word: tetradarchy
word: quattuorvirate
word: quadrumvirate
word: quartumvirate
word: quatrumvirate
word: pentarchy
word: quinquevirate
word: hexarchy
word: sevirate
word: sexvirate
word: sextumvirate
word: heptarchy
word: septemvirate
word: octarchy
word: octovirate
word: novemvirate
word: decarchy
word: decadarchy
word: decemvirate
word: undecimvirate
word: dodecarchy
word: duodecimvirate
word: duodecimate
word: quindecemvirate
word: vigintivirate
word: hecatontarchy
word: hecatarchy
word: centumvirate
word: chiliarchy
word: myriarchy
word: polyarchy
word: aristocracy
word: democracy
word: despotism
word: dictatorship
word: feudalism
word: kleptocracy
word: meritocracy
word: millionocracy
word: millocracy
word: oligarchy
word: people's republic
word: plutocracy
word: republic
word: theocracy
word: tyranny
Derived terms: antigovernment
anti-government
caretaker government
central government
countergovernment
cybergovernment
eGovernment
e-government
form of government
G2P
G2Px
good enough for government work
governmental
governmentese
government expenditure
government failure
government-in-exile
government in exile
governmentish
governmentism
governmentist
governmentless
governmentlike
government name
government-owned and controlled corporation
government spending
government take
government-to-person
government trophy
governmentwide
governmentwise
governmenty
machine of government
malgovernment
microgovernment
misgovernment
nongovernment
non-government
progovernment
pro-government
pseudogovernment
quasigovernment
self-government
selfgovernment
subgovernment
supergovernment
undergovernment
Zionist occupation government
Related terms: word: branch of government
word: close enough for government work
word: govern
word: governance
word: government agent
word: government bond
word: government cheese
word: government debt
word: government house
word: Government House
word: government issue
word: government man
word: government note
word: government purchases
word: government security
word: government shutdown
word: government stroke
word: government wharf
word: governor
word: head of government
word: in government
word: Jewish occupation government
word: rotation government
word: seat of government
word: ocracy
word: authority
word: power
word: :Category:en:Forms of government
word: :Template:rule by a number of people
word: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 737a. Government