Meaning

• The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.

• A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.

• 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.

• Father.

• Boss, employer, similar to gaffer.

• Term of address to a man; guv'nor.

• (grammar) A constituent of a phrase that governs another.

• One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.

• A pilot; a steersman.