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“govern”
govern (verb), governs; governed; governing
1. To be officially responsible for directing the affairs, policies, and economy of a state, country, or organization: The citizens of the nation are so happy that they are not governed by a dictator.
2. To make and to administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority: The young kind governed the country in a wise manner after his father, the old kind, passed away.
3. To control, to regulate, or to direct something: The state governs the eligibility of teachers to receive their retirement funds.
4. To have or to exercise an influence over something: Luck or chance can govern the outcome of the game solitaire in a person's favour.
5. To control something by restraint: Sally was unable to govern her emotions.
6. To maintain the speed of an engine or to keep it from going above a specific level by controlling the fuel or steam supply: At the garage, Tom wanted to have the valve that governed the fuel intake checked carefully.
2. To make and to administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority: The young kind governed the country in a wise manner after his father, the old kind, passed away.
3. To control, to regulate, or to direct something: The state governs the eligibility of teachers to receive their retirement funds.
4. To have or to exercise an influence over something: Luck or chance can govern the outcome of the game solitaire in a person's favour.
5. To control something by restraint: Sally was unable to govern her emotions.
6. To maintain the speed of an engine or to keep it from going above a specific level by controlling the fuel or steam supply: At the garage, Tom wanted to have the valve that governed the fuel intake checked carefully.
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“govern”
(Greek: struggle, a contest, to contend for a prize; also, to lead, set in motion, drive, conduct, guide, govern; to do, to act; by extension, pain)
(Greek: govern, rule; ruler, chief [first in position])
(Greek: steersman, pilot, helmsman; to steer, guide, govern, governor; computer-mediated electronic communications)
(Greek: a suffix; to govern, to rule; government, strength, power, might, authority)
(Latin: to direct, to rule, to lead straight, to keep straight; to guide, to govern)