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What does govern mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word govern? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
  2. (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
  3. (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
  4. (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
  5. (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
  6. (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
  7. (grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
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