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governance
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noun
(= administration, establishment)
the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
he claims that the present administration is corrupt
the governance of an association is responsible to its members
he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment
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noun
(= government, governing)
the act of governing; exercising authority
regulations for the governing of state prisons
he had considerable experience of government
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Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
public
Adjective
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Something is public if it is about or for all the people.
You can't tell me to go away. This is a public place.
public
Noun
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All of the people in a big place like a country.
I'm going to write this in the newspaper because the public needs to know it.
Getting Western publics to understand the nature of the war is hard enough.
The dress rehearsal was opened to the general public as well as celebrities.
administration
Noun
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The administration are the people who run and organise an organisation such as a business or government.
In short, the administration does not actually know why it wants a space station.
The Bush administration has one of the worst records of any American government.
branch
Noun
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A part of a tree that grows out from the trunk (center).
Sally scraped her arm on a branch when she fell out of a tree.
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A part of something that acts like a branch does to its tree.
The study of electricity is a branch of physics.
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One of a series of shops that are owned by the same company in business.
McDonalds has many branches spread throughout the country.