government
/ˈgʌv·ərn·mənt/, /-ər·mənt/ n [C/U]Definition
› politics & government the offices, departments, and groups of people that control a country, state, city, or other political unit: [U] She works for the government. [C] The new tax law affects the budgets of both state and local governments. › Government is also a particular system of managing a country, state, city, etc.: [U] democratic government
(Definition of government n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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