Definisjon av governor på Engelsk

WordNet

Noun
governor - the head of a state government
		politician a person active in party politics
		bey the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire
		eparch the governor or prefect of an eparchy in ancient Greece
		governor general a governor of high rank
		military governor the head of a government established by the military (as in a defeated country)
		nawab, nabob a governor in India during the Mogul empire
		proconsul an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul
		satrap a governor of a province in ancient Persia
governor - a control that maintains a steady speed in a machine (as by controlling the supply of fuel)
		regulator
		controller, control the activity of managing or exerting control over something; "the control of the mob by the police was admirable"
		flywheel regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine

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Substantiv
governor - The leader of a region or state that is a member of a federation or an empire. In Roman Rome, they were endorsed by the emperor and appointed by the Senate. In the modern United States, they are elected by the people of that state.
governor - A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
governor - 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.
governor - Father.
governor - Boss, employer.

A governor (from French gouverneur) is a governing official, usually the executive (at least nominally, to different degrees also politically and administratively) of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constituent state. In countries the heads of the constitutive states, provinces, communities and regions may be titled Governor, although this is less common in parliamentary systems such as in some European nations and many of their former colonies, which use titles such as President of the Regional Council in France and Minister-President in Germany, where in some states there are governorates as sub-state administrative regions.

governor
An official who heads the government of a colony, state or other sub-national state unit.