govern
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
govern (governs, present participle governing; past and past participle governed)
- (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- The old king governed the land wisely.
- (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses
- Find the strength, courage, and discipline to govern yourself or be governed by someone else.
- (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- Chance governs the outcome of many card games.
- (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- a valve that governs fuel intake
- (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
- (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
- German: regulieren
- Russian: управля́ть
- German: lenken
- Russian: влия́ть
- German: regeln
- Russian: регули́ровать
- German: regeln
- Russian: влия́ть
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