That is the most common usage of the word. For other usages, please look it up in a dictionary, or provide full, specific context (not a fragment). Here is how the American Heritage Dictionary difines the term:

1. The act or process of governing, especially the control and administration of public policy in a political unit.

2. The office, function, or authority of a governing individual or body.

3. Exercise of authority in a political unit; rule.

4. The agency or apparatus through which a governing individual or body functions and exercises authority.

5. A governing body or organization, as:

6. The cabinet in a parliamentary system.

7. The persons who make up a governing body.

8. A system or policy by which a political unit is governed.

9. Administration or management of an organization, business, or institution.

10. Political science.

11 (in Grammar): The influence of a word over the morphological inflection of another word in a phrase or sentence.