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v. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; exercise sovereign authority in.

v. To control the speed or magnitude of; regulate: a valve that governs fuel intake.

v. To control the actions or behavior of: Govern yourselves like civilized people.

v. To keep under control; restrain: a student who could not govern his impulses.

v. To exercise a deciding or determining influence on: Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.

v. Grammar To require (a specific morphological form) of accompanying words.

verb-intransitive. To exercise political authority.

verb-intransitive. To have or exercise a determining influence.

v. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

v. To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.

v. To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

v. To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.

v. To exercise political authority; to run a government.

v. To have or exercise a determining influence.

v. To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

v. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority.

v. To regulate; to influence; to direct; to restrain; to manage

v. To require to be in a particular case; ; or to require (a particular case).

verb-intransitive. To exercise authority; to administer the laws; to have the control.

To exercise a directing or restraining power over; control or guide: used of any exertion of controlling force, whether physical or moral.

Specifically To rule or regulate by right of authority; control according to law or prescription; exercise magisterial, official, or customary power over: as, to govern a state, a church, a bank, a household, etc.

In grammar, to cause or require to be in a particular form: as, a transitive verb or a preposition governs a noun or pronoun in the objective case; the possessive case is governed by the thing possessed; the subject governs the verb in number and person.

To exercise or have control; practise direction or guidance; especially, to exercise legal or customary authority.

v. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations

v. direct or strongly influence the behavior of

v. exercise authority over; as of nations

v. require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood

"A wise person once said that "to govern is to choose.""

governator    governed    governement    governements    governing    governs   

control    command    need    necessitate    call for    take    involve    require    postulate    ask   

governess    governor    government    governance   

regulate    influence    direct    restrain    manage   

collective    supervisory    proper    =========    nonprofit    deliberative    u.s.-led    undeformed    15-member    foodservice