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Meaning
Verb
●
To make and
administer
the
public policy
and
affairs
of; to
exercise
sovereign
authority
in.
●
To
exercise
political
authority
; to
run
a government.
●
To control the
actions
or
behavior
of; to
keep under
control; to restrain.
●
To
exercise
a
deciding
or
determining
influence on.
●
To have or
exercise
a
determining
influence.
●
To
handle
, to
manage
, to
oversee
(
a matter
, an
affair
, a
household
, etc.).
●
To control the
speed
,
flow
etc. of; to regulate.
●
To
direct
the
course
of, to
guide
in some
direction
, to steer.
●
To
look after
, to
take care of
, to
tend
to (someone or some plant).
●
To
manage
, to control, to work (a
tool
or
mechanical
device).
●
In Grammar:
To
require
that a certain
preposition
,
grammatical case
, etc. be used with a
word
; sometimes used
synonymously
with collocate.
Noun
●
The
act
of governing
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