Government (noun)
1.the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration:
Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
2.the form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed:
monarchical government; episcopal government.
3.the governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.; administration.
4.a branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation , taken as representing the whole:
a dam built by the government.
5.
the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time:
The prime minister has formed a new government.
the parliament along with the cabinet:
The government has fallen.
6.direction; control; management; rule:
the government of one's conduct.
7.a district governed; province.