Meaning of government in English

to bring political parties together to make a government when none of them has received a large enough number of votes in an election to control the government:

The former prime minister was seeking support from smaller parties to help form a government.

the government [ S ]

the government of a particular country, especially the country you are in or the one you have already referred to:

The government is proposing changes to subsidies for renewable energy sources.

The figures are based on the government's survey of the labor force.

(Definition of government from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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State and local governments also have considerable regulatory authority over granting siting permits necessary for the operation of many types of facilities.

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As a supplementary policy, the government permitted pricing based on costs for new health services, mainly high-technology services.

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If there is a government policy that allows the decentralized economy to achieve the constrained planner's allocation, then it is the optimal policy choice.

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In theory, village development plans flow up through district and regional development committees to the central government.

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The government needed professional and politically-minded staff to take on the planned political development of the country over the long haul.

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Efforts to calculate the level of price support for rice required the government to elicit cost of production data from the agricultural associations.

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Considered here is the simplest case, where government spending is purely dissipative and does not affect private utility.

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In this early period, the government did not intervene in such activities as long as they retained a purely philanthropic goal.

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Researchers could be misled by the publications of the first category because they were usually censored by the government to fit its propaganda purposes.

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In the 1920s, the school was eager to distinguish itself from the government schools as a means of attracting more pupils.

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It was first returned because it had been drafted by counsel; government could only be addressed by principals, not their agents.

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The government's objective function depends on whether it recognizes returns to all land, both cultivated and common, or returns only to common land.

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The government has been reducing home-help services and experimenting with privatisation.

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However, from the mid 1980s the government further reduced the municipal elbowroom.

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This tendency was reinforced in 1939 when the government declared the gas supply a state-owned public monopoly.

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