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What is the verb for government?

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govern
  1. (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
  2. (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
  3. (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
  4. (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
  5. (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
  6. (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
  7. (grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
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  9. Examples:
    1. “He pledged that he would govern the state with a sole regard to its interests, and that he would act in the most friendly and liberal manner towards every individual in it.”
      “Complex laws and regulations govern the cancellation of debts once soldiers leave the service, he said.”
      “Only as a result of living and experience, as Aristotle suggests, could Troilus learn to govern his emotions and to act with prudence and moderation.”
governmentalize
governmentalise
  1. Alternative form of governmentalize
governess
  1. To work as governess; to educate children in their own home.
governmentalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of governmentalise
governmentalizes
governmentalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of governmentalise
governmentalized
governs
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of govern
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Sound repetition and permutation, together with various graphic variants, thus governs meaning in Bergvall's poem.”
      “What lies behind all this, I believe, is a deep sense of the fundamental antagonism between the government and the people it governs.”
      “Stay safe and remember to spend even a short moment quietly with the Almighty, He who governs and rules all.”
governeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of govern
governessed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of governess
governmentalising
  1. present participle of governmentalise
governmentalizing
governest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of govern
governed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of govern
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A system of private property governed by a rule of law sets limits on the permissible form of competition for resources.”
      “The Greek preposition had several meanings, depending on whether it governed the accusative, genitive, or dative case.”
      “As a territory born out of the desire for an aboriginal land claims agreement, we are governed as a public government.”
governessing
  1. present participle of governess
governing
  1. present participle of govern
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony, drafted by English religious separatists.”
      “What is startling about this statement is the degree to which this mayor is simply abdicating responsibility for governing the city.”
      “All information coming from such a governing body should be looked at with the utmost skepticism.”
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