Definition of government

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Government (n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe..

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Government :: Government (n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.
Reign :: Reign (n.) To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule..
Solicitor :: Solicitor (n.) The law officer of a city, town, department, or government; as, the city solicitor; the solicitor of the treasury..
Organize :: Organize (v. t.) To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc..
Territory :: Territory (n.) The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company..
Assignat :: Assignat (n.) One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state..
Brevet :: Brevet (n.) A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage]..
Duty :: Duty (n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods..
Conservative :: Conservative (a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical..
Jacobinism :: Jacobinism (n.) The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government.
Democracy :: Democracy (n.) Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.
Kakistocracy :: Kakistocracy (n.) Government by the worst men.
Despotism :: Despotism (n.) A government which is directed by a despot; a despotic monarchy; absolutism; autocracy.
Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..
Omnium :: Omnium (n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.
Oligarch :: Oligarch (n.) A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.
Nationality :: Nationality (n.) The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc..
Matriarchate :: Matriarchate (n.) The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.
Department :: Department (v. i.) Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics..
Foreign :: Foreign (a.) Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government..
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