govern

IPA: gˈʌvɝn

(transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
(intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
(transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
(transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
(intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
(transitive, obsolete) To handle, to manage, to oversee (a matter, an affair, a household, etc.).
(transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
(transitive, obsolete) To direct the course of, to guide in some direction, to steer.
(transitive, obsolete) To look after, to take care of, to tend to (someone or some plant).
(transitive, obsolete) To manage, to control, to work (a tool or mechanical device).
(transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

Examples of "govern" in Sentences

The distillery is controlled by the Government of Belarus.
The Incan government controlled all clothing of their society.
Chechnya is wholly under the control of the Russian government.
The central Government was knowingly ignorant of the media control.
In American government, rescission authority rests with the President.
The government also brought in controls on absentee ownership of land.
The expansion of government is limited by the consent of the governed.
The government could implement curfews controlling the movement of people.
He exercised virtual authoritarian control over the government and the army.
The protesters want the government to honour an earlier promise to pay victims of the former regime.