forms of government

Noun

government (countable and uncountable, plural governments)

1. The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
   • British government has historically centred exclusively on London.
2. The relationship between a word and its dependents.

   Synonyms:

   regimen, rection

3. The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
   • Near-synonyms: state, administration

   Synonyms:

   state, administration, governance, management, statism

4. (uncountable) The management or control of a system.
   • The government of the Church is maintained without material alteration in a settled hierarchical form.1908, Walter Frederic Adeney, The Greek and Eastern churches, page 275
5. The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
   • The Sunak government announced plans to stem the flow of migrants coming into Great Britain.
6. In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power; its condition of being in power.

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