Usually means: Officials overseeing state government operations.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. governors: Merriam-Webster
  2. governors: Collins English Dictionary
  3. governors: Vocabulary.com
  4. Governor's, Governors, Governors, Governors, governor's, governors, governors: Wordnik
  5. governors: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. governors: Wiktionary
  7. governors: Dictionary.com
  8. governors: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Governors: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Governors: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. governors: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Governors: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Governors: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. governors: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See governor as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Governor)

noun:  (politics) The chief executive officer of a first-level administrative division of a country.
noun:  A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
noun:  A member of a decision-making body (such as a committee) for a larger organization or entity (including some public agencies), similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
noun:  (informal) Father.
noun:  (informal) Boss; employer; gaffer.
noun:  (UK, informal, dated) Term of address to a man; guv'nor.
noun:  (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
noun:  (dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
noun:  (nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
noun:  The title for someone who holds the post of governor.
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