<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.</li><li>The form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed: monarchical government; episcopal government.</li><li>The governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.; administration.</li><li>A branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation, taken as representing the whole: a dam built by the government.</li><li>(In some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom) the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time: The prime minister has formed a new government.</li><li>The parliament along with the cabinet: The government has fallen.</li><li>Direction; control; management; rule: the government of one's conduct.</li><li>A district governed; province.</li><li>Political science.</li><li>Grammar: the established usage that requires that one word in a sentence should cause another to be of a particular form: the government of the verb by its subject.</li></ul>