governmental
has definitions from the field of government
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[ adjective ] (government) of or relating to the governing authorities
Examples "the core of a governmental system" "public confidence and governmental morale" Used in print (Kenneth Reiner, "Coping with Runaway Technology"...)Their kind created an American culture superior to any in the world , an industrial and technological culture which penetrated Russia as it did almost every corner of the earth without a nickel from the Federal treasury or a single governmental specialist to contrive directives or program a series of consultations of interested agencies . The corporation in America is in_reality our form of socialism , vying in_a_sense with the other socialistic form that has emerged within governmental bureaucracy . Thus , if corporations are not to run_away with us , they must become quasi governmental institutions , subject_to public control and needs . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)The efforts of various interest groups to control or influence governmental decisions , particularly when taken in conjunction with the impact of industrialization , led to a concentration of attention on the legislative power and the means whereby policy could be formulated and enforced as law through bureaucratic institutions . To free the factors of production was a major objective of the rising bourgeoisie , and this objective required that governmental authority - administrative_officials and judges - be limited as precisely and explicitly as possible ; that old customs which inhibited trade be abrogated ; that business be free from governmental supervision and notions of morality which might clog the automatic adjustments of the free market ; that obligations of status that were inconsistent with the new politics and the new economics be done away with . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] dealing with the affairs or structure of government or politics or the state
Examples "governmental policy" Related terms |
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