meaning of governments
1.  The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. 
2.  The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law. 
3.  The right or power of governing; authority. 
4.  The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration. 
5.  The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe. 
6.  Management of the limbs or body. 
7.  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. 
8.  the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of 
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