Dictionary entry

The Government

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

[CGp] အစိုးရ။ နိုင်ငံ (သို့) ပြည်နယ် တစ်ခုကို အုပ်စိုးသော လူတစ်စု။

Definition

government / 'gʌvǝnmǝnt / n ၁။ (often the Government ) [CGp] အစိုးရ။ ႏိုင္ငံ (သို႔) ျပည္နယ္ တစ္ခုကို အုပ္စိုးေသာ လူတစ္စု။ lead/ form a government ❍ the last Labour government ❍ Foreign governments have been consulted about this decision. ❍ She has resigned from the Government. ❍ The Government is / are considering further tax cuts. ❍ a government department / grant / publication ❍ government policies / money / ministers ❍ government-controlled industries. ၂။ [U] (က) အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈ (သို႔) အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပံု။ corrupt / ineffectual/ strong government ❍ Four years of weak government had left the economy in ruins. ❍ The Labour Party was in government from 1964 to 1970. (ခ) အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပံု နည္းစနစ္။ အစိုးရ။ Democratic government has now replaced military rule. ❍ communist / conservative/ liberal/ totalitarian government. See also LOCAL GOVERNMENT ❏ governmental / ' gʌvn'mentl / adj အစိုးရ။ governmental institutions.

Examples

  1. The government has announced plans to raise the minimum wage next year.
  2. A democratically elected government
  3. [under a government] : Under the Conservative government things were very different.
  4. [form a government] : The party with an overall majority is then asked to form a government.
  5. [coalition government] : The Social Democrat Party is threatening to leave the coalition government.
  6. Government employees
  7. I’m not sure these reforms will necessarily lead to more effective government.