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These terms usually mean the same thing. Do you want to explain the difference you're trying to highlight?

• messe 3y ago
  On this side of the atlantic at least, the government tends to just mean the prime minister / head of government and their cabinet (and to an extent the associated political parties in charge).
  • pb7 3y ago
    Ok so what is a general term for your courts, your legislature, your bodies responsible for defense and foreign policy, your securities and banking, your monetary policy, etc? It's all government.
    • messe 3y ago
      The state? Government just isn't used as a term for that here, except as an encroaching americanism.
• callalex 3y ago
  In amareicanese the government is called the administration.