Usually means: Establishing and enforcing rules, authority.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. governing: Merriam-Webster
  2. governing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. governing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  4. Governing (magazine), Governing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Governing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. governing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. governing: Rhymezone
  8. Governing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. governing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. governing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. governing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. governing: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. governing: Dictionary.com
  14. governing: Vocabulary.com
  15. Governing, governing: Wordnik
  16. governing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  17. governing: Wiktionary
  18. Governing: Dictionary.com
  19. governing: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. governing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. governing: Encyclopedia

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

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noun:  a website, edited and published in Washington, D.C., that covers state and local government in the United States.


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