A government is the system by which a state or community is controlled.[1] In the case of this broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators, administrators, and arbitrators.[dubious– discuss] Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as the mechanism for determining the policy of the state.[dubious– discuss]Forms of government, or forms of state governance, refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organisation of a specific government.[dubious– discuss]
In addition to the above political meanings, in grammar and theoretical linguistics, government or rection refers to the relationship between a word and its dependents.