government – WordReference.com Dictionary of English

1. Governmentthe political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.;
   political administration:Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
2. Governmentthe form or system of rule by which a state, community, etc., is governed: monarchical government;
   episcopal government.
3. Governmentthe governing body of persons in a state, community, etc.;
   administration.
4. Governmenta branch or service of the supreme authority of a state or nation, taken as representing the whole:a dam built by the government.
5. Government(in some parliamentary systems, as that of the United Kingdom)
   • the particular group of persons forming the cabinet at any given time: The Prime Minister has formed a new government.
   • the parliament along with the cabinet:The government has fallen.

6. direction;
   control;
   management;
   rule:the government of one’s conduct.
7. Governmenta district governed;
   province.
8. GovernmentSee  political science. 
9. Grammarthe extablished usage that requires that one word in a sentence should cause another to be of a particular form:the government of the verb by its subject.

gov•ern•men•tal
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation adj. gov′ern•men ′tal•ly, adv. 

Normal phonological processes are reflected in a variety of pronunciations for government. Most commonly, the first
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation of
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation assimilates to the immediately following
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation with the resulting identical nasal sounds coalescing to give the pronunciation
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation This pronunciation is considered standard and occurs throughout the U.S. For speakers in regions where postvocalic
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation is regularly lost, as along the Eastern Seaboard and in the South, the resulting pronunciation is
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation or, with loss of the medial unstressed vowel,
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation Further assimilation, in which the labiodental
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation in anticipation of the bilabial quality of the following
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation becomes the bilabial stop
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation leads in the South Midland and Southern U.S. to the pronunciation
(guv′ərn mənt, -ər mənt),USA pronunciation See  isn’t.