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

Recent Examples on the Web

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Still, the city’s recognition of the need for thoughtful governance is both necessary and overdue. —

Blake Behmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2025 The issue for me is whether these prompt executive orders were examples of governance or shtick. —

Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 25 Jan. 2025 The directive was at once a breakthrough for L.A. and a demonstration of poor governance. —

Joe Mathews, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2025 To make data management and governance more pervasive, IT leaders will have to apply best practices more broadly across the business. —

Rajiv Shesh, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for governance