government

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌv.ə.mənt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌv.ən.mənt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌv.mənt/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈɡɐvɘ(n)mɘnt/
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• New-Zealand: /ˈɡɐvmɘnt/
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From Middle English governement, from Old French governement (modern French gouvernement), from governer (see govern) + -ment. Morphologically govern + -ment. Displaced native Old English gerec, leodweard, ræden, rǣding and ealdordōm.

264 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Acehnese: peumeurèntah — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Afrikaans: regering — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Albanian: qeveri — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Amharic: መንግሥት (mängəśt) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Arabic: حُكُومَة (ḥukūma) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Aragonese: gubierno — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Armenian: կառավարություն (kaṙavarutʻyun) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Assamese: চৰকাৰ (sorokar) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Asturian: gobiernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Avar: хӏукумат (ḥrukumat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Azerbaijani: dövlət — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Azerbaijani: hökümət — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Azerbaijani: hakimiyyət — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Bashkir: хөкүмәт (xökümət) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Basque: gobernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Belarusian: ура́д (urád) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Belarusian: ўрад (wrad) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Bengali: সরকার (śorkar) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Bengali: হুকুমত (hukumot) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Bengali: দৌলত (dōulot) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Breton: gouarnamant — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Bulgarian: прави́телство (pravítelstvo) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Burmese: အစိုးရ (a.cui:ra.) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Buryat: засаглал (zasaglal) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Carpathian Rusyn: воло́да (volóda) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Carpathian Rusyn: вла́да (vláda) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Catalan: govern — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Cebuano: kagamhanan — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Chechen: правительство (praviteljstwo) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Chechen: ӏедал (ˀedal) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Chichewa: boma — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Chinese Cantonese: 政府 — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Chinese: җынфу (žɨnfu) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Eastern Min Chinese: 政府 (céng-hū) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Hakka Chinese: 政府 (chṳn-fú) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Chinese: 政府 (zh-min-nan) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Chinese Mandarin: 政府 (zhèngfǔ) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Wu Chinese: 政府 (5tsen-fu5) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Coptic: ⲙⲁⲛⲉⲣϣⲓϣⲓ (maneršiši) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Corsican: guvernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Czech: vláda — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Danish: regering — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Danish: stat — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Dutch: regering — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Dutch: overheid — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Dzongkha: སྲིད་གཞུང (srid gzhung) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Erzya: правительство (praviteľstvo) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Erzya: масторонь ветямо (mastoroń veťamo) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Esperanto: registaro — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Estonian: valitsus — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Extremaduran: gobiernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Extremaduran: gobielnu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Finnish: hallitus — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• French: gouvernement — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• West-Frisian: regear — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Friulian: guviêr — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Galician: goberno — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Georgian: მთავრობა (mtavroba) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Georgian: ხელისუფლება (xelisupleba) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• German: Regierung — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• German: Regierig — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Bavarian German: Regiarung — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Greek: κυβέρνηση (kyvérnisi) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Ancient Greek: κυβερνισμός (kubernismós) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Gujarati: સરકાર (sarkār) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Haitian Creole: gouvènman — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Hausa: gwamnati — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Hawaiian: aupuni — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Hebrew: מֶמְשָׁלָה (memshalá) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Hindi: सरकार (sarkār) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Hindi: हुकूमत (hukūmat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Hungarian: kormány — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Icelandic: stjórn — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Icelandic: ríkisstjórn — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Ido: guvernerio — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Indonesian: pemerintah — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Interlingua: governamento — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Irish: rialtas — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Italian: governo — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Japanese: 政府 (seifu) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Kalmyk: залвр (zalvr) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Kannada: ಸರಕಾರ (sarakāra) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• S'gaw Karen: ကီၢ်ပဒိၣ် (kaw̱ pa doh̀) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Kazakh: үкімет (ükımet) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Khmer: រដ្ឋាភិបាល (rŏətthaaphibaal) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Khmer: រដ្ឋបាល (rŏətthaʼbaal) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Kikuyu: thirikari — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Korean: 정부 (jeongbu) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Kumyk: гьукумат (hukumat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Central Kurdish: حوکمەت (ḧukmet) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Central Kurdish: حکوومەت (ḧkûmet) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Northern Kurdish: hikûmet — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Kyrgyz: өкмөт (ökmöt) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Ladin: guviern — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Lao: ລັດຖະບານ (lat tha bān) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Latin: administrātiō — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Latin: gubernātiō — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Latvian: valdība — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Lezgi: гьукумат (hukumat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Limburgish: Regiering — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Lithuanian: vyriausybė — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Lithuanian: valdžia — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Lü: ᦟᦱᦋᦂᦱᧃ (laatsk̇aan) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Lü: ᦵᦐᦲᦷᦜᧂ (ṅoel̇ong) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Lü: ᦉᦐᦱᧄ (ṡṅaam) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Luhya: eserikali — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Macedonian: влада (vlada) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Macedonian: управа (uprava) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Malay: kerajaan — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Malay: pemerintah — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Malayalam: സർക്കാർ (saṟkkāṟ) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Malayalam: ഭരണകൂടം (bharaṇakūṭaṁ) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Maltese: gvern — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Manchu: ᡩᠠᠰᠠᠨ ᠶᠠᠮᡠᠨ (dasan yamun) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Māori: kāwanatanga — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Marathi: सरकार (sarkār) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Marathi: शासन (śāsan) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Mauritian Creole: gouvernman — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Mizo: sorkar — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Mongolian: засаг (zasag) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Mongolian: засгийн газар засгийн ордон (zasgiin gazar) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ (ǰasaɣ) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ ᠭᠠᠵᠠᠷ (ǰasaɣ-ün ɣaǰar) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Mongolian: ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ ᠦᠨ ᠣᠷᠳᠣᠨ (ǰasaɣ-ün ordon) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Muna: pamarinta — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Nepali: सरकार (sarkār) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Nigerian Pidgin: goment — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Norman: gouvèrnément — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Norwegian Bokmål: regjering — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Norwegian Bokmål: myndigheter — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Norwegian Bokmål: styresmakter — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Norwegian Nynorsk: regjering — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Norwegian Nynorsk: styremakter — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Norwegian Nynorsk: styresmakter — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Norwegian Nynorsk: myndigheiter — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Occitan: govèrn — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Odia: ସରକାର (sarakāra) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Old English: leodweard — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Old English: gerec — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Old English: anweald — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Old English: ealdordom — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Oromo: mootummaa — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Pannonian Rusyn: влада (vlada) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Papiamentu: gobernashon — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Pashto: حکومت (hokumat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Pashto: سرکار (sarkār) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Pashto: دولت (dawlat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Persian: دَوْلَت (dawlat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Persian: حُکُومَت (hukūmat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Iranian Persian: دُوْلَت (dowlat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Iranian Persian: حُکومَت (hokumat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Plautdietsch: Rejierunk — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Polish: rząd — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Polish: władza — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Portuguese: governo — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Punjabi: ਸਰਕਾਰ (sarkār) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Romanian: guvern — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Russian: прави́тельство (pravítelʹstvo) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sanskrit: शासन (śāsana) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sanskrit: राज्य (rājya) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sanskrit: नृपक्रिया (nṛpakriyā) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sanskrit: राजता (rājatā) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sardinian: cuberru — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sardinian: guvernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sardinian: cuvrenu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sardinian: cuverrinu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Scottish Gaelic: riaghaltas — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Scottish Gaelic: riaghladh — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Serbo-Croatian: вла́да — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Serbo-Croatian: vláda — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Shan: လူင်ပွင်ၸိုင်ႈ (lǔung pǎung tsūeng) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Shan: ဢၸူဝ်းယႃႉ (ʼǎ tsó yâ̰a) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sicilian: cuvernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sicilian: guvernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sicilian: cuviernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sicilian: guviernu — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Sinhalese: රජය (rajaya) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Slovak: vláda — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Slovene: vlada — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Somali: dowlad — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Spanish: gobierno — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Swahili: serikali — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Swedish: regering — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tagalog: gobyerno — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tagalog: pamahalaan — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tajik: давлат (davlat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tajik: ҳукумат (hukumat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tamil: அரசு (aracu) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tamil: அரசாங்கம் (aracāṅkam) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tatar: хөкүмәт (xökümät) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Telugu: ప్రభుత్వం (prabhutvaṁ) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Telugu: సర్కారు (sarkāru) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Thai: รัฐบาล (rát-tà-baan) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tibetan: གཞུང (gzhung) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tigrinya: መንግስቲ (mängəsti) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tok Pisin: gavman — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Tumbuka: boma — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Turkish: hükûmet — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Turkmen: hökümet — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Udmurt: кивалтэт (kivaltet) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Udmurt: правительство (praviťeľstvo) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Ukrainian: у́ряд (úrjad) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Ukrainian: вла́да (vláda) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Urdu: حُکُومَت (hukūmat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Urdu: سَرْکار (sarkār) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Urdu: دَولَت (daulat) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Uyghur: ھۆكۈمەت (hökümet) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Uzbek: hukumat — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Venetan: guerno — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Venetan: governo — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Venetan: goerno — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Vietnamese: chính phủ — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Volapük: reiganef — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Welsh: llywodraeth — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• West Frisian: regearing — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• West Frisian: regear — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Yakut: дьаһалта (jahalta) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Yakut: бырабыыталыстыба (bïrabïïtalïstïba) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Yiddish: רעגירונג (regirung) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Yiddish: מלוכה (melukhe) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Yiddish: ממשלה (memshole) — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Yoruba: ìjọba — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Zhuang: cwngfuj — body with the power to make and/or enforce laws
• Dutch: rectie — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Finnish: rektio — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• French: rection — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Georgian: მმართველობა (mmartveloba) — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Georgian: მართვა (martva) — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Georgian: ხელმძღვანელობა (xelmʒɣvaneloba) — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• German: Rektion — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Italian: reggenza — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Japanese: 支配 (shihai) — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Polish: związek rządu — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Polish: rekcja — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Portuguese: regência — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Romanian: recțiune — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Russian: управле́ние (upravlénije) — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Spanish: rección — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Swedish: rektion — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Swedish: styrning — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Udmurt: кивалтон (kivalton) — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Ukrainian: керува́ння (keruvánnja) — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Welsh: rheolaeth — grammar: relationship between a word and its dependents
• Afrikaans: regering — state and its administration
• Danish: øvrighed — state and its administration
• Finnish: hallitus — state and its administration
• Finnish: valtiovalta — state and its administration
• German: Regierung — state and its administration
• Italian: governo — state and its administration
• Portuguese: governo — state and its administration
• Russian: госуда́рство (gosudárstvo) — state and its administration
• Tamil: அரசாங்கம் (aracāṅkam) — state and its administration
• Tamil: அரசு (aracu) — state and its administration
• Ukrainian: держа́ва (deržáva) — state and its administration
• Danish: styring — management or control of a system
• Finnish: hallinta — management or control of a system
• Italian: controllo — management or control of a system
• Portuguese: controle — management or control of a system
• Tamil: ஆட்சி (āṭci) — management or control of a system
• Ottoman Turkish: سیاست (siyâset) — management or control of a system
• Danish: regering — tenure of a chief of state
• Finnish: hallitus — tenure of a chief of state
• Finnish: toimikausi — tenure of a chief of state
• Tamil: ஆட்சி (āṭci) — tenure of a chief of state