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Word: govern
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Meaning:
Verb:
- intransitive To exercise political authority; to run a government.
- intransitive To have or exercise a determining influence.
- transitive To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
- transitive To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
- transitive To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
- transitive To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
- transitive To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
Source: Wiktionary
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