government
[zone: 1, ipm: 919.77]
Definitions
- the group of people who are responsible for controlling a country or a state
- a particular system or method of controlling a country
Examples
- The head of government is the prime minister, generally the leader of the governing political party in Parliament.
- The government acted, however, with generosity and courage, although their wisdom and administrative aptitude were not equally conspicuous.
- The Tory government imposed new taxes on the American Colonies.
- As the extent and complexity of government increased, the number of households multiplied.
- A monarchial form of government has supporters and critics who express opposite views regarding its significance and effect on the nation it rules over.
Collocations
- British [score: 10.6, freq: 1433] (the British government)
- majesty [score: 10.24, freq: 61] (her majesty's government)
- Rome [score: 10.24, freq: 20] (Rome's government)
- official [score: 9.65, freq: 77] (government officials)
- Gladstone [score: 9.31, freq: 10] (Gladstone's government)
- policy [score: 9.31, freq: 14] (government's policy)
- Nasser [score: 9.25, freq: 9] (Nasser's government)
- decision [score: 9.2, freq: 6] (following government's decision)
- establish [score: 9.13, freq: 169] (government established)
- French [score: 8.99, freq: 440] (the French government)
- central [score: 8.98, freq: 210] (central government)
- Pitt [score: 8.91, freq: 10] (Pitt's government)
- Germany [score: 8.83, freq: 14] (Germany's government)
- local [score: 8.65, freq: 185] (local government)
- English [score: 8.6, freq: 236] (the English government)
- authority [score: 8.59, freq: 6] (government's executive authority)
- department [score: 8.56, freq: 27] (government department)
- Provisional [score: 8.5, freq: 136] (the Provisional government)
- Bismarck [score: 8.49, freq: 9] (Bismarck's government)
- Henry [score: 8.35, freq: 8] (Henry's government)
- colonial [score: 8.35, freq: 163] (colonial government)
- North [score: 8.33, freq: 6] (Lord North's government)
- Canadian [score: 8.24, freq: 126] (the Canadian government)
- federal [score: 8.23, freq: 120] (federal government)
- representative [score: 8.17, freq: 110] (representative government)
- institute [score: 8.09, freq: 43] (governments are instituted among men)
- support [score: 8.02, freq: 62] (support the government)
- monopoly [score: 7.92, freq: 14] (government monopoly)
- provincial [score: 7.9, freq: 96] (provincial government)
- imperial [score: 7.87, freq: 129] (imperial government)
- Chinese [score: 7.86, freq: 107] (the Chinese government)
- Roman [score: 7.86, freq: 154] (the Roman government)
- employee [score: 7.76, freq: 11] (government employee)
- administer [score: 7.72, freq: 35] (administer the government)
- executive [score: 7.68, freq: 81] (executive government)
- appoint [score: 7.46, freq: 44] (appointed by the Government)
- intrust [score: 7.13, freq: 22] (intrusted the government of)
- adopt [score: 7.13, freq: 36] (government adopted)
- subsidy [score: 6.93, freq: 7] (government subsidies)
- Napoleon [score: 6.9, freq: 11] (Napoleon's government)
- propose [score: 6.89, freq: 30] (government proposed)
- issue [score: 6.74, freq: 26] (government issued)
- King [score: 6.71, freq: 7] (King's government)
Thesaurus
- state [score: 0.372, freq: 21685]
- power [score: 0.366, freq: 28019]
- people [score: 0.349, freq: 29977]
- authority [score: 0.343, freq: 11249]
- law [score: 0.328, freq: 16874]
- king [score: 0.324, freq: 26488]
- empire [score: 0.312, freq: 21781]
- nation [score: 0.3, freq: 15132]
- man [score: 0.298, freq: 43782]
- country [score: 0.297, freq: 27816]
- party [score: 0.297, freq: 11219]
- emperor [score: 0.296, freq: 13757]
- prince [score: 0.286, freq: 12311]
- army [score: 0.284, freq: 23956]
- minister [score: 0.282, freq: 8236]
- France [score: 0.282, freq: 22227]
- court [score: 0.282, freq: 9879]
- system [score: 0.278, freq: 8829]
- policy [score: 0.274, freq: 8979]
- force [score: 0.272, freq: 15431]
Translations
Russian | власть (0.016) правительство (0.803) правление (0.006) государство (0.017) |
Czech | vláda (0.844) |