Probably the most frequent use of this term is in various parts of Britain, where working-class men use it to address another man, usually one who is unknown to them. In his book The Cockney, Julian Franklyn writes: ‘Guv’ner’,...

All maintained schools are required by law to have a board of governors. In recent years the powers and responsibilities of governors have steadily increased. The 1944 Education Act required the duties of governors to be set out in an instrument of...

// n. 1. In any case of government (in senses 1 and 2 of that term), the element whose presence imposes a requirement upon a second element, the governed category. 2. In GB, any one of certain categories designated as capable of bearing the relation of...

A mechanical device used to regulate automatically the speed of a machine or appliance by applying variable frictional resistance to rotating or other moving...

A governor or governour (archaic) 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. The title also...