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(politics) The chief executive officer of a province or provincial-level division of a country.
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A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
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A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
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(informal) father.
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(informal) Boss, employer.
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(grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
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(dated) One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
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(nautical) A pilot; a steersman.
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One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
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One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
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A pilot; a steersman.
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A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
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the head of a state government
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a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
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an official appointed to govern a town or region.
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the elected executive head of a state of the US.
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the representative of the British Crown in a colony or in a Commonwealth state that regards the monarch as head of state.
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the head of a public institution
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a member of a governing body.
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the person in authority; one's employer.
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a device automatically regulating the supply of fuel, steam, or water to a machine, ensuring uniform motion or limiting speed.
Governor
A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, governor may be the title of a politician who governs a constituent state and may be either appointed or elected.