government

Etymology
From, from (modern French ), from  (see ) +.

Morphologically

Displaced native, , , and.

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1)  The relationship between a word and its dependents.
 * 2) The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
 * 3)  The management or control of a system.
 * 4) The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
 * 5) In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power, as opposed to the opposition; the state of being in power.
 * 6)  The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
 * , one's legal name according to a government.
 * 1)  The management or control of a system.
 * 2) The tenure of a head of government; the ministry or administration led by a specified individual.
 * 3) In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power, as opposed to the opposition; the state of being in power.
 * 4)  The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
 * , one's legal name according to a government.
 * 1) In a parliamentary system, the political party or coalition in power, as opposed to the opposition; the state of being in power.
 * 2)  The team tasked with presenting and speaking in favour of a resolution, as opposed to the opposition.
 * , one's legal name according to a government.
 * , one's legal name according to a government.

Usage notes
In the United States, "government" is considered to be divided into three branches: the legislature (the House of Representatives and the Senate) which makes law, the Administration (under the President) which runs sections of government within the law, and the Courts, which adjudicate on matters of the law. This is a much wider meaning of "government" than exists in the United Kingdom where and other words describe the process or power of governing generally and the term "government" is used more particularly of the ruling political force of the prime minister and his/her cabinet ministers (what Americans would call the Administration). In Britain, the administrative organs of the nation are collectively referred to as "the state". In Canada government is used in both senses and neither state nor administration are used. Applied to many countries in continental Europe (when using English), the British usage is common.

In Britain, the word is often capitalised when referring to the particular UK government. British and older works in general may distinguish between Government as the ruling body and government as the practice of governing.

Translations

 * Acehnese: peumeurèntah
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መንግሥት
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese: gobierno
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: চৰকাৰ
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: хӏукумат
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Bashkir: хөкүмәт
 * Basque: gobernu
 * Bavarian: Regiarung
 * Belarusian: ура́д, ўрад
 * Bengali:, ,
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Buryat: засаглал
 * Carpathian Rusyn: воло́да, вла́да
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: kagamhanan
 * Chechen: правительство, ӏедал
 * Chichewa: boma
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 政府
 * Dungan: җынфу
 * Eastern Min: 政府
 * Hakka: 政府
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 政府
 * Coptic: ⲙⲁⲛⲉⲣϣⲓϣⲓ
 * Corsican:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, stat
 * Dutch: ,
 * Dzongkha: སྲིད་གཞུང
 * Erzya: правительство, ветикочкавкс
 * Esperanto: registaro, registara, regado
 * Estonian: valitsus
 * Extremaduran: gobiernu, gobielnu
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: guviêr
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: მთავრობა, ხელისუფლება
 * German:
 * Alemannic German: Regierig
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κυβερνισμός
 * Gujarati: સરકાર
 * Haitian Creole: gouvènman
 * Hausa: gwamnati
 * Hawaiian: aupuni
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: stjórn, ríkisstjórn
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: governamento
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kalmyk: залвр
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: үкімет
 * Khmer: ,
 * Kikuyu: thirikari
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: гьукумат
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: حوکمەت,
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: guviern
 * Lao:
 * Latin: administrātiō, gubernātiō
 * Latvian:
 * Lezgi: гьукумат
 * Limburgish: Regiering
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Lü: ᦟᦱᦋᦂᦱᧃ, ᦵᦐᦲᦷᦜᧂ, ᦉᦐᦱᧄ
 * Luhya: eserikali
 * Macedonian: влада, управа
 * Malay:, pemerintah
 * Malayalam:, ഭരണകൂടം
 * Maltese: gvern
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: सरकार
 * Mizo: sorkar
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, засгийн газар засгийн ордон
 * Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ, ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ ᠭᠠᠵᠠᠷ, ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ ᠣᠷᠳᠣᠨ
 * Nepali:
 * Nigerian Pidgin: goment
 * Norman: gouvèrnément
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, myndigheter, styresmakter
 * Nynorsk: regjering, styremakter, styresmakter, myndigheiter
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ସରକାର
 * Old English: leodweard, gerec, anweald, ealdordom
 * Oromo: mootummaa
 * Papiamentu: gobernashon
 * Pashto:, ,
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Rejierunk
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * S'gaw Karen: ကီၢ်ပဒိၣ်
 * Sanskrit:, , ,
 * Sardinian: cuberru, guvernu, cuvrenu, cuverrinu
 * Scottish Gaelic: riaghaltas, riaghladh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вла́да
 * Roman:
 * Shan: လူင်ပွင်ၸိုင်ႈ
 * Sicilian:, , ,
 * Sinhalese: රජය
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ,
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གཞུང
 * Tigrinya: መንግስቲ
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Tumbuka: boma
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: hökümet
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: حُکُومَت, سَرْکار, دَولَت
 * Uyghur: ھۆكۈمەت
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: guerno, governo, goerno
 * Vietnamese: (政府)
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: regear
 * Yakut: дьаһалта, бырабыыталыстыба
 * Yiddish: רעגירונג, מלוכה, ממשלה
 * Yoruba: ìjọba
 * Zhuang: cwngfuj


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მმართველობა, მართვა, ხელმძღვანელობა
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:, rekcja
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: rección
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Danish: øvrighed
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Danish: styring
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:


 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ; toimikausi


 * Cebuano:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Maori: