GOVERNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does governing mean? 

• GOVERNING (noun)
  The noun GOVERNING has 1 sense:

1. the act of governing; exercising authority

  Familiarity information: GOVERNING used as a noun is very rare.

• GOVERNING (adjective)
  The adjective GOVERNING has 1 sense:

1. responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws

  Familiarity information: GOVERNING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOVERNING (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("governing" 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))

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

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))

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

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)

• GOVERNING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws

Context example:

governing bodies

Similar:

dominant (exercising influence or control)

 Context examples 

The biochemical and biophysical properties governing the binding of proteins to DNA

(DNA-Protein Interaction, NCI Thesaurus)

G1 Arrest consists of cellular biochemical mechanisms, responsive to diverse governing conditions (DNA damage, contact inhibition, growth factors, etc.), that control cellular progress through the G1 phase of the cell cycle.

(Negative Regulation of G1 Phase, NCI Thesaurus)

A legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.

(Law, NCI Thesaurus)

To spare Henrietta from agitation seemed the governing principle.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Two major types of genetic events are crucial for the molecular pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukemias (AML): activating mutations of signal transduction intermediates and alterations in myeloid transcription factors governing hematopoietic differentiation.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Mutually exclusive alternative forms of the same gene occupying the same locus on homologous chromosomes, differing in nucleotide sequence and governing the same biochemical and developmental process.

(Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

It affects cancer cell receptors governing cell growth and cell death.

(Apomine, NCI Dictionary)

The European regulations governing the treatment of sewage sludge have been made tougher over the last few years.

(Scientists validate a new technology that transforms sewage sludge into fertilizer more efficiently, University of Granada)

For who can read of the virtues I have mentioned in the glorious Houyhnhnms, without being ashamed of his own vices, when he considers himself as the reasoning, governing animal of his country?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)