Usually means: Authority organizing community rules, services.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word government:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. government: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. government: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. government: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. government: Collins English Dictionary
  5. government: Vocabulary.com
  6. Government, Government, govern'ment, government, government, government, government, government: Wordnik
  7. government: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. government: Wiktionary
  9. government: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. government: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. government: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. government: Dictionary.com
  13. government: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Government (disambiguation), Government (linguistics): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. government: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. government: Rhymezone
  17. government: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. government: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Government (i.e. Washington, D.C.): American-Britih Dictionary
  20. government: Free Dictionary
  21. government: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. government: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. government: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Government: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  25. Government: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Government: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. government: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. government, the government: Legal dictionary
  6. government: Financial dictionary
  7. Government: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Government: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. government: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. government: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. government: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. government: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the government: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See governmental as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
noun:  (grammar, linguistics) The relationship between a word and its dependents.
noun:  The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
noun:  (uncountable) The management or control of a system.
noun:  The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
noun:  In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power, as opposed to the opposition; the state of being in power.
noun:  (debating) The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
noun:  Ellipsis of government name, one's legal name according to a government. [One's (partial or full) legal name, as opposed to one's nickname or street name; one's government-recognized name.]

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