GOVERNANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does governance mean? 

• GOVERNANCE (noun)
  The noun GOVERNANCE has 2 senses:

1. the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

2. the act of governing; exercising authority

  Familiarity information: GOVERNANCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOVERNANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization

Context example:

he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment

Hypernyms ("governance" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (parts of "governance"):

hierarchy; pecking order; power structure (the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body)

Meronyms (members of "governance"):

advisory board; planning board (a board appointed to advise the chief administrator)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "governance"):

Curia ((Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church)

top brass (the most important persons in a governing body)

executive (persons who administer the law)

bench; judiciary (persons who administer justice)

county council (the elected governing body of a county)

government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

management (those in charge of running a business)

Holonyms ("governance" is a part of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of governing; exercising authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity

Context example:

he had considerable experience of government

Hypernyms ("governance" is a kind of...):

social control (control exerted (actively or passively) by group action)

Domain member category:

squandermania (prodigious squandering (usually by a government))

minimalist (advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics))

unitary (characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority)

federal (characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities)

allegiant (steadfast in devotion (especially to your lawful monarch or government))

progressive; reform-minded; reformist (favoring or promoting reform (often by government action))

anarchy; lawlessness (a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government))

office; power ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power)

zero-coupon bond; zero coupon bond (a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security)

bounty; premium (payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military)

event planner (someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials))

manifesto; pronunciamento (a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government))

paternalism (the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good)

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)

government ((government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed)

protest march (occasion when you can express opposition by marching (usually on some government institution) without a license)

destabilisation; destabilization (the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy))

devolution; devolvement (the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government))

price-fixing (control (by agreement among producers or by government) of the price of a commodity in interstate commerce)

land reform (a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action))

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "governance"):

misgovernment; misrule (government that is inefficient or dishonest)

lawmaking; legislating; legislation (the act of making or enacting laws)

trust busting ((law) government activities seeking to dissolve corporate trusts and monopolies (especially under the United States antitrust laws))

Derivation:

govern (exercise authority over; as of nations)

 Context examples 

Third, they involve the community in both the management and governance of the center.

(Community Health Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the type of governance over which an entity has to make laws and enforce them.

(Jurisdiction Authority Code, NCI Thesaurus)

It had been gradually yielding to the better hopes which her looks, or words, or actions occasionally encouraged; it had been vanquished at last by those sentiments and those tones which had reached him while she talked with Captain Harville; and under the irresistible governance of which he had seized a sheet of paper, and poured out his feelings.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)