Government synonyms
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(Theater) The director's plan for achieving certain effects, as of acting, lighting, etc.
Power assigned to another; authorization:
The act of administering; management; specif., the management of governmental or institutional affairs
Government; reign; control
(US) The House of Representatives, "the House".
The form of government of a nation, state, church, or organization.
(Law) Resort to general principles of fairness and justice whenever existing law is inadequate
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The analytical study of public policy and policies, past, present, and prospective.
The state of being superior
The legislature of the U.S., consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives
anarchy (antonym)
(Uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
lawlessness (antonym)
The predominance of one state or social group over others.
coup (antonym)
Among certain Native American peoples, a feat of bravery performed in battle, especially the touching of an enemy's body without causing injury.
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An officially elected or otherwise selected body of people vested with the responsibility and power to make laws for a political unit, such as a state or nation.
revolution (antonym)
The definition of a revolution is the movement of one object around a center or another object, a forceful overthrow of a government by the people or any sudden or grand change.
mutiny (antonym)
Open rebellion against constituted authority, especially rebellion of sailors against superior officers.
insurrection (antonym)
The act or an instance of open revolt against civil authority or a constituted government.
Management or administration marked by hierarchical authority among numerous offices and by fixed procedures:
The condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence or preponderance
subjection (antonym)
The state of being subjected.
chaos (antonym)
(Mathematics) A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.
A territory or sphere of influence or control; a realm.
The extent of authority or control:
The person or persons who control or direct a business or other enterprise.
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Legal power or right; sanction
The distribution of offices or other favors through this power
A dominating or being dominated; rule; control; ascendancy
Superiority in importance, influence, or weight.
The process or period of one's ascent
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(Astrol.) The flowing of an ethereal fluid or power from the stars, affecting people's character and actions
The office or function of president
The act of regimenting.
A specific kind of government:
political practice
The process of governing
caretaker-government
(Politics) A type of government that rules temporarily.
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governmental procedure
The process of governing
(Computing) In Microsoft .NET, a building block of an application, similar to a DLL, but containing both executable code and information normally found in a DLL's type library. The type library information in an assembly, called a manifest, describes public functions, data, classes, and version information.
executive power
The instrument of governing
A social system or order
supreme authority
The instrument of governing
Ministers of religion collectively; clergy
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A room in a house, especially a bedroom.
(Historical) Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.
(Canada) The Senate of Canada; the upper house of the Canadian parliament; "the Senate".
The instrument of governing
A formal general assembly of the princes or estates of the Holy Roman Empire.
An assembly or meeting.
A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
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Court is defined as an uncovered area partially or completely surrounded by structures.
A book of directions, as for church service
Favorable to or advocating federation:
Relating to governing.
A body of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister to head the executive departments of the government and to act as official advisers.
Governance is defined as the decisions and actions of the people who run a school, nation, city or business.
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revolt (antonym)
The state of a person or persons in rebellion:
The act of superintending; supervision
Supervision is the act or process of directing a person or group of people.
control (related)
Authority or ability to manage or direct:
politics (related)
Political life:
governement (related)
federal-government (related)
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policy (related)
A principle, rule, or law designed to control or govern conduct.
The power or domain of a suzerain.
A territory existing as an independent state.
A person or thing having great influence, force, or authority
The collective body of magistrates.
(--- Brit.) The administrative body of a county, town, city, district, etc.
Any of the various governing councils that performed executive and legislative functions in the Soviet Union: in structure the soviets formed a pyramid, with the village and town soviets as its base and the as its apex
A district governed or represented by a Protestant synod
Of or relating to a governor.
statal
Relating to any nation-state.
A system of government that substitutes for the reign of a king or queen when that king or queen becomes unable to rule.
the act of governing; exercising authority
the act of governing; exercising authority
Plural form of authority
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