Usually means: Management and organization of entities.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. governance: Merriam-Webster
  2. governance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. governance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. governance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. governance: Vocabulary.com
  6. Governance, governance: Wordnik
  7. governance: Wiktionary
  8. governance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. governance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. governance: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Governance, governance: Dictionary.com
  12. Governance (journal), Governance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Governance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. governance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. governance: Rhymezone
  16. Governance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. governance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. governance: FreeDictionary.org
  19. governance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. governance: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. governance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. governance: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. governance: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. governance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. governance: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The process, or the power, of governing; government or administration.
noun:  The specific system by which a political system is ruled.
noun:  The group of people who make up an administrative body.
noun:  The state of being governed.
noun:  (management) Accountability for consistent, cohesive policies, processes and decision rights.

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