Meaning of government in English

Examples of government

government
State and local governments also have considerable regulatory authority over granting siting permits necessary for the operation of many types of facilities.
As a supplementary policy, the government permitted pricing based on costs for new health services, mainly high-technology services.
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.
In theory, village development plans flow up through district and regional development committees to the central government.
The government needed professional and politically-minded staff to take on the planned political development of the country over the long haul.
Efforts to calculate the level of price support for rice required the government to elicit cost of production data from the agricultural associations.
Considered here is the simplest case, where government spending is purely dissipative and does not affect private utility.
In this early period, the government did not intervene in such activities as long as they retained a purely philanthropic goal.
Researchers could be misled by the publications of the first category because they were usually censored by the government to fit its propaganda purposes.
In the 1920s, the school was eager to distinguish itself from the government schools as a means of attracting more pupils.
It was first returned because it had been drafted by counsel; government could only be addressed by principals, not their agents.
The government's objective function depends on whether it recognizes returns to all land, both cultivated and common, or returns only to common land.
The government has been reducing home-help services and experimenting with privatisation.
However, from the mid 1980s the government further reduced the municipal elbowroom.
This tendency was reinforced in 1939 when the government declared the gas supply a state-owned public monopoly.
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Collocations with government

government

These are words often used in combination with government.

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authoritarian government
The percentage of those that would accept an authoritarian government ' under certain circumstances ' has decreased.
autocratic government
He argues that, in the early times an autocratic government committed to economic development had a 'minimalist' approach to social policy.
centralized government
Nor can a centralized government do all of the above by itself!
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Translations of government

in Chinese (Traditional)
團體, 政府,內閣, 體制…
in Chinese (Simplified)
团体, 政府,内阁, 体制…
in Spanish
gobierno, gobierno [masculine]…
in Portuguese
governo, governo [masculine]…
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政府, 政治体制, 政府(せいふ)…
hükümet, yönetme, yönetim…
gouvernement [masculine], administration [feminine], gouvernement…
govern…
regering, regime, bestuur…
حُكومة…
vláda, panování, správa…
regering, styre, regere…
pemerintah, pemerintahan, administrasi…
รัฐบาล, การปกครอง, ระบบการปกครอง…
chính quyền, cách thức hoặc hệ thống lãnh đạo, việc hoặc quá trình cai trị…
rząd, rządy, ustrój…
kerajaan, sistem pemerintahan…
die Regierung, die Regierungsform…
regjering [masculine], stat [masculine], statsledelse [masculine]…
정부, 체제…
уряд, правління, урядування…
governo, amministrazione…
правительство, управление, форма правления…
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