Word Meanings - GOVERNANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exercise of authority; control; government; arrangement. Chaucer. J. H. Newman.

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• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• CONTROL
  contr-rôle; contre + rôle roll, catalogue. See Counter 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. Johnson. 2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder;
• CONTROLLABLE
  Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• CONTROLLER
  An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, controls
• EXERCISER
  One who exercises.
• CONTROLLERSHIP
  The office of a controller.
• ARRANGEMENT
  1. The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form. 2. The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic
• CONTROLMENT
  1. The power or act of controlling; the state of being rstrained; control; restraint; regulation; superintendence. You may do it without controlment. Shak. 2. Opposition; resistance; hostility. Here have we war for war, and blood for
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• UNCONTROLLABLE
  1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness,
• THREE-TORQUE SYSTEM OF CONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• INCONTROLLABLE
  Not controllable; uncontrollable. -- In`con*trol"la*bly, adv. South.
• BELL SYSTEM OF CONTROL
  See CLOCHE
• SETTING-UP EXERCISE
  Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.
• SELF-CONTROL
  Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.
• DISARRANGEMENT
  The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.