the act of combining things to form a new whole | the act of governing; exercising authority |
the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order | (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed |
a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities | the study of government of states and other political units |
a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose | the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit |
a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock | |
an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes) | |
a coordinated sequence of chess moves | |