the act of governing; exercising authority | the act of combining things to form a new whole |
(government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed | the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order |
the study of government of states and other political units | a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities |
the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose |
| 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 |