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- Dictionarygoverning/ˈɡʌvənɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. having authority to conduct the policy, actions, and affairs of a state, organization, or people: "the governing coalition"
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the management or control of the activities of a particular country, region, or organization: a governing board / coalition / council / party.
The meaning of GOVERN is to exercise continuous sovereign authority over; especially : to control and direct the making and administration of policy in. How to use govern in a sentence.
to control and direct the public business of a country, city, group of people, etc.: The country has been governed by military regimes. A president needs popular support in order to govern effectively. Fewer examples. We are governed, in Lord Hailsham's famous phrase, by an ' elective dictatorship '.
1. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of (a state, for example); exercise sovereign authority over. 2. To control the speed or magnitude of; regulate: a valve that governs fuel intake. 3. To control the actions or behavior of: Govern yourselves like civilized people. 4.
having the right and the authority to control something such as a country or an institution. The Conservatives were then the governing party. The school's governing body (= the group of people who control the organization of the school) took responsibility for the decision.
verb. also intr to direct and control the actions, affairs, policies, functions, etc, of (a political unit, organization, nation, etc); rule. to exercise restraint over; regulate or direct. to govern one's temper. to be a predominant influence on (something); decide or determine (something) his injury governed his decision to avoid sports.
govern in British English. (ˈɡʌvən ) verb (mainly tr) 1. (also intr) to direct and control the actions, affairs, policies, functions, etc of (a political unit, organization, nation, etc); rule. 2. to exercise restraint over; regulate or direct. to govern one's temper. 3.
[transitive, intransitive] govern (something) to legally control a country or its people and be responsible for introducing new laws, organizing public services, etc. The country is governed by elected representatives of the people. He accused the opposition party of being unfit to govern. Extra Examples. Topics Politics b2.
having the power to direct and control the actions, affairs, policies, functions, etc of a political unit, organization, nation, etc; rule. Discontent has been fed by the antics of the governing elite. The opposition says there's civil war within the governing party. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
To govern is to rule, lead, oversee, or otherwise control. Each U.S. state has its own governor, whose job it is to govern the affairs of that state. While it's true that governors govern — that is, they head the executive branch of their state government — there are lots of other ways to use the verb govern.
