supergovernment

[ soo-per-guhv-ern-muhnt, -guhv-er- ]

noun

1. a centralized organization formed by a group of governments to enforce justice or maintain peace.
2. an internationally organized body designed to regulate the relations of its member states.
3. any government having overwhelming and far-reaching powers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of supergovernment¹

super- + government

Example Sentences

Little of the dickering will be entrusted to the EEC Executive Commission, the Brussels-based body of Eurocrats that was once expected to become a sort of European supergovernment.

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"We have grown so fast that the land can no longer absorb us," says John Asplund, chairman of the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, a form of urban supergovernment.

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Some respond to rational calls for decentralizing federal functions, an old creed with new relevance in the day of ever larger supergovernment.

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Futurists are earnestly considering all kinds of worries: the possible failure of underdeveloped countries to catch up with the dazzling future, the threat of war, the prospect of supergovernment.

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This is far distant from a world supergovernment, and Mr. Hoover seems glad of it.

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