Synonym: boss, command, conduct, control, determine, direct, guide, handle, head, influence, lead, manage, minister, preside over, regulate, rule, run, supervise. Antonym: misgovern, misrule. Similar words: governor, government, federal government, poring over, overnight, over and over, cavernous, over. Meaning: ['gʌvərn /'gʌvn] 
v. 1. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations 2. direct or strongly influence the behavior of 3. exercise authority over; as of nations 4. require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood.
v. 1. bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations 2. direct or strongly influence the behavior of 3. exercise authority over; as of nations 4. require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood. 
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(211) Ktesibios's regula was the first nonliving object to self - regulate, self - govern, and self - control.
(212) A blanket assault on our institutions and motives can paralyze the nation's capacity to govern itself.
(213) The findings will encourage the efforts of environmentalists and others who have been pushing for aggressive new regulations to govern hydrofluorocarbon chemicals (HFCs).
(214) Black Duck Software extends the Rational Software Deployment Platform with solutions to help companies govern how their software assets are created, managed, and licensed.
(215) In addition to reconciliation, Clinton will also be pressing the Afghans on reaching a security agreement that will govern U.S.-Afghanistan relations after American troops leave.
(216) It is utterly important to govern the falsity of accounting information.
(217) Once a problem has been solved satisfactorily in the British system , that solution tends to be used again in similar situations , and becomes a precedent to govern future actions .
(218) If the Group is able to control and govern the financial and operating policies of the joint venture so as to obtain benefits from its activities, such joint venture is accounted for as a subsidiary.
(219) In their pioneering work, Brown and Gilman proposed the sociolinguistic terms power semantic and solidarity semantic for the first time, which govern the choice of the pronominal forms.
More similar words: governor, government, federal government, poring over, overnight, over and over, cavernous, over, lover, cover, oversee, get over, all over, go over, be over, overall, covert, overcome, poverty, recover, run over, proverb, hand over, uncover, covered, cover up, lay over, over there, overlap, overcast.