Arrange vs Govern - What's the difference?
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To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To put in order, to organize.
To plan; to prepare in advance.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
(label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.
To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.
To exercise political authority; to run a government.
To have or exercise a determining influence.
To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.
Arrange is a related term of govern.
As verbs the difference between arrange and govern
is that arrange is while govern is to make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.As an adjective arrange
is organized, neat.arrange
English
Verb
(arrang)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* arrangementgovern
English
Verb
(en verb)- Govern yourselves like civilized people.
- a student who could not govern his impulses.
- Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.
- a valve that governs fuel intake.