Government Definition–noun | 1. | the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society. | | 2. | the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed: monarchical government; episcopal government. | | 3. | the governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.; administration. | | 4. | a branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation, taken as representing the whole: a dam built by the government. | | 5. | (in some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom) | a. | the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time: The Prime Minister has formed a new government. | | b. | the parliament along with the cabinet: The government has fallen. | | | 6. | direction; control; management; rule: the government of one's conduct. | | 7. | a district governed; province. | | 9. | Grammar. the extablished usage that requires that one word in a sentence should cause another to be of a particular form: the government of the verb by its subject. | |
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