0 past simple and past participle of govern
1 to control and direct the public business of a country, city, group of people, etc.:
2 to have a controlling influence on something:
Prices of goods are governed by the cost of the raw materials, as well as by the cost of production and distribution.
We are governed, in Lord Hailsham's famous phrase, by an 'elective dictatorship'.
The country's being governed by a bunch of incompetents.
He was chosen to govern the colony by the British government.
He has been governing the country since taking power in a military coup.
Another defeat in parliament would seriously weaken the president's ability to govern.
The choice among all the actions that are simultaneously enabled at the same state is governed by the race policy.
It may not be an ordinary material object, but it is something governed by laws of nature, something to which causal powers are ascribed.
First, the link between the predictor and predicted variable may be governed by several mechanisms that are not mutually exclusive.
