The action or process of governing or being governed; administration or management.
From Latin gubernatio, from gubernare (to steer, govern). This formal noun form developed in Late Latin to describe the abstract concept of steering or ruling an entity.
Gubernation, gubernance, and governance are basically three linguistic cousins showing how the same Latin root spread differently across Romance languages—French, Spanish, and English each picked up the word at different times.
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