Usually means: Exercising authority or control over.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ruling: Merriam-Webster
  3. ruling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ruling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ruling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ruling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ruling, ruling: Wordnik
  8. ruling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ruling: Wiktionary
  10. ruling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ruling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ruling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. ruling: Dictionary.com
  14. ruling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ruling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ruling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ruling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ruling: Rhymezone
  19. Ruling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ruling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ruling: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ruling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ruling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruling: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. ruling: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. ruling: Legal dictionary
  7. Ruling: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruling: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ruling: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. ruling: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See rule as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  That rules; predominant; chief; reigning; controlling.
noun:  An order or a decision on a point of law from someone in authority.

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