governance

noun

gov·er·nance ˈgə-vər-nən(t)s

plural governances

: the act or process of governing or overseeing the control and direction of something (such as a country or an organization) : government

a centralized system of governance

the challenges of national governance

… the governance of amateur sport in America …—

P. S. Wood

… three years before he died, [Lionel] Trilling pressed the point that the way a nation thinks determines in the end the quality of its governance.—

Benjamin DeMott

Enron, and the corporate disasters that followed, forced many companies to get serious about governance.—

Louis Lavelle

Theirs was the perennial problem of quick-witted subjects under the governance of dull-witted administrators.—

Declan Kiberd

Michael Dukakis, at the 1988 Democratic convention, said governance was about competence, not ideology. He got it half right: Competence is important to governance, but ideology is critical …—

U.S. News & World Report

Examples of governance in a Sentence

They have very different approaches to the governance of the city. after World War II, the four Allied nations shared the governance of the territory of postwar Germany under the Allied Control Council

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In countries whose governance systems were nascent, local-scale and unprepared to absorb massive external capital inflows, credit ratings found grudging acceptance as a proxy credit-governance mechanism. —

Ann Rutledge, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 The Japanese government and the Tokyo Stock Exchange have been putting pressure on companies to improve their corporate governance and capital allocation over the past decade, with a view to drawing in more international investors. —

George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 28 Dec. 2024 The Palestinian Authority wants to position itself to take over governance in Gaza once the war there ends. —

Majdi Mohammed and Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024 But regardless of how long Musk remains by Trump’s side, his presence—especially on matters such as calls with foreign leaders—is far from traditional for someone who does not have the expertise of governance, Asma Khalid said. —

The Editors, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for governance