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Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state.In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. Each government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. Typically the philosophy chosen is some balance between the principle of individual freedom and the idea of absolute state authority (tyranny).
While all types of organizations have governance, the word government is often used more specifically to refer to the approximately 200 independent national governments on Earth, as well as subsidiary organizations.Historically prevalent forms of government include monarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, theocracy and tyranny. The main aspect of any philosophy of government is how political power is obtained, with the two main forms being electoral contest and hereditary succession.
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State (noun)
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
“a state of being;”
“a state of emergency”
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State (noun)
A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
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State (noun)
The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
“In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.”
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State (noun)
The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
“The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.”
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State (noun)
The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
“A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.”
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State (noun)
The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
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State (noun)
High social standing or circumstance.
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State (noun)
Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
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State (noun)
Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
“The President’s body will lie in state at the Capitol.”
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State (noun)
Rank; condition; quality.
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State (noun)
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
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State (noun)
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
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State (noun)
A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
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State (noun)
A polity.
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State (noun)
Estate, possession.
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State (noun)
Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
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State (noun)
A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; any province.
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State (noun)
A form of government other than a monarchy.
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State (noun)
An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
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State (verb)
To declare to be a fact.
“He stated that he was willing to help.”
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State (verb)
To make known.
“State your intentions.”
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State (adjective)
stately
“36|The ſhepheardes ſwayne you cannot well ken, / But it be by his pride, from other men: / They looken bigge as Bulles, that bene bate, / And bearen the cragge ſo ſtiffe and ſo ſtate, / As Cocke on his dunghill, crowing cranck.”
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Government (noun)
The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.
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Government (noun)
The relationship between a word and its dependents
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Government (noun)
A group of people who hold a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in a given territory.
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Government (noun)
The state and its administration viewed as the ruling political power.
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Government (noun)
The management or control of a system.
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Government (noun)
The tenure of a chief of state.
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Government (noun)
the group of people with the authority to govern a country or state; a particular ministry in office
“the government’s economic record”
“successive Labour governments”
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Government (noun)
the system by which a state or community is governed
“a democratic form of government”
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Government (noun)
the action or manner of controlling or regulating a state, organization, or people
“rules for the government of the infirmary”
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Government (noun)
the relation between a governed and a governing word.