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GOVERNING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of governing; exercising authority
Example:
he had considerable experience of government
Synonyms:
administration; governance; governing; government; government activity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("governing" is a kind of...):
social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)
Domain member category:
minimalist (advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics))
unitary (characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority)
federal (characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities)
allegiant (steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government))
progressive; reform-minded; reformist (favoring or promoting reform (often by government action))
anarchy; lawlessness (a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government))
office; power ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power)
zero-coupon bond; zero coupon bond (a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security)
bounty; premium (payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military)
event planner (someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials))
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
manifesto; pronunciamento (a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government))
paternalism (the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good)
government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)
government ((government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed)
protest march (occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license)
destabilisation; destabilization (the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy))
devolution; devolvement (the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government))
price-fixing (control (by agreement among producers or by government) of the price of a commodity in interstate commerce)
squandermania (prodigious squandering (usually by a government))
land reform (a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "governing"):
misgovernment; misrule (government that is inefficient or dishonest)
lawmaking; legislating; legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)
trust busting ((law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws))
Derivation:
govern (exercise authority over; as of nations)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws
Example:
governing bodies
Classified under:
Similar:
dominant (exercising influence or control)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb govern
Context examples:
Through it all, behind it all, was man, governing and controlling, expressing himself, as of old, by his mastery over matter.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As we were going through some of the magnificent passages, I inquired of Mr. Creakle and his friends what were supposed to be the main advantages of this all-governing and universally over-riding system?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This set of criteria are reviewed by and agreed upon by the user community or a governing body before they are released and adopted for use.
(Data Standard, NCI Thesaurus)
Guidelines may be developed by government agencies at any level, institutions, professional societies, governing boards, or by convening expert panels.
(Guideline, NCI Thesaurus)
Elinor began to find this impertinence too much for her temper; but she was saved the trouble of checking it, by Lucy's sharp reprimand, which now, as on many occasions, though it did not give much sweetness to the manners of one sister, was of advantage in governing those of the other.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She was in a state of mind to be glad that she had secured her fate beyond recall: that she had pledged herself anew to Sotherton; that she was safe from the possibility of giving Crawford the triumph of governing her actions, and destroying her prospects; and retired in proud resolve, determined only to behave more cautiously to Mr. Rushworth in future, that her father might not be again suspecting her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
G1-S Arrest consists of cellular biochemical mechanisms, responsive to diverse governing conditions (DNA damage, contact inhibition, growth factors, etc.), that control cellular commitment at the G1 restriction point to DNA replication and the proliferative cycle.
(Negative Regulation of G1 to S Transition, NCI Thesaurus)
And so unmeasureable is the ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it, by a viceroy; of destroying the Big-endian exiles, and compelling that people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain the sole monarch of the whole world.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
When I asserted that the Yahoos were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired to know, whether we had Houyhnhnms among us, and what was their employment?
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He agreed; and I went on by assuring him, that the ship was made by creatures like myself; who, in all the countries I had travelled, as well as in my own, were the only governing rational animals; and that upon my arrival hither, I was as much astonished to see the Houyhnhnms act like rational beings, as he, or his friends, could be, in finding some marks of reason in a creature he was pleased to call a Yahoo; to which I owned my resemblance in every part, but could not account for their degenerate and brutal nature.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
