Tagalog Government Words

president

to make prevail

to rule

flag

country

government

anomaly, abnormality

chief of a village

politics

gambling bribe/share; illegal collection

weapon; arms

right or entitlement

vote

power

corruption

senator

cleaning rug; corrupt politician (slang)

leader

to escape

to release [it]; giving up of a post/role

evidence

kingdom

Congress

mayor

election

catch, arrest

case

criminal

fine; penalty

national

politician

prison

leader

huge war; battle

campaign

citizen

law

legislature

war

to set free

steps to be undertaken

army

agreement, contract

court of law

the political Left

captain; local chief

justice

ministry

to represent a matter

crime

policy or system

to surrender

responsibility or accountability

military

witness; to testify

to bear witness; to testify

president

prisoner

bomb

male governor

female governor

congress

constitution

supreme court

imprisoned; surrounded

to steal; corrupt

to attack [it]

bribe; to bribe

to frisk [it/them]

against; not permitted

to catch

to catch [it]

position or office

councilor

to lead

nation; country

rebellion

to capture [him/her]

to capture [it]

to capture

to prosecute [someone]

grenade

to confiscate [it]

rank; position

illegal

republic

official; authorized; formally set

to catch

welfare, good, interest

candidate

freedom

evidence; proof; certificate

to charge (someone)

to manage

government

revolution

overpricing for bribes

rifle

representative

to prevail

issue; lawsuit; litigation; case

investigation

flag

rebel; insurgent

to trample [it]; to violate [it]

document

interrogation

senate

to abduct [him/her]

to attack

attack; invasion; raid

independence

to attack or charge

servant; to serve

to take an oath

choice; chosen one

to defend [it]

council

to investigate [it]

arrest; capture

election

injustice

lawmaker

notary public

management; governance

agency

benefit

jail, prison

congressman/woman

court

ask for a bribe; extort

coup d'etat

corrupt

majority

town hall, municipal hall

leadership

reelection

registered

reform

representative

restriction

attack; charge; invade

a session

witness

detective; spy; to spy

emissary; delegate

document

to represent

to swear

yellow supporter

to sign [it]

ally

alliance

ballot

democracy

battle; war

identification

police force

coalition

colonization

liberal

monopoly

national

authority; people in control

pertaining to the barangay

political

sovereignty

authority

to report to police

revolution

mother country

female veteran

male veteran

to resign

investigate

implicated

independence

authorities

contraband

confiscate

to defend

minor (of minor age)

municipal

bribe

revolutionary

regulation; rule; policy

regime

register; list; entry

inspection; body search

resolution

security

sector

civil; polite; non-military

terrorism

government bureau or department

missing or abducted person

trigger of a gun

guerilla

to enact into law

to legislate

to serve as president

elected; selected

management; administration

to choose [them]

to choose

to spy

to spy on [someone]

to guard with police

tampering with election results

inspection

to bribe

nomination

opposition; party in contradiction

order; command; rule

ordinance; authoritative rule

consultation; seeking advice

to load ammo

police stick

to capture

extra-judicial

ambassador

inauguration

treasurer

alternate

frisk

cartel

concession

to resign

to file a charge

malversation

will of the people via legislation

to be corrupt

authority

to fine [someone]

municipality

audit; examination of accounts

reign

strengthening; ratification; confirmation

oath-taking

requirement

recourse; turning for help

represent

representation

connivance; conspiracy; collusion

to summarily execute

to suppress or contain

Muslim ruler

lieutenant

extrajudicial killing; drugwar killings

First Lady

to dismiss [someone]

rise, to revolt

pick up; arrest (slang)

damage; payment for damage

delegate

delegation

demand; formal accusation

democratic

a person deported; deported

deportation

diplomacy

executive

colonized

colonizer

colonial

colonialism

communism

communist

condemnation

sentenced

consul

to tighten or enforce strictness

militant

monarch

monarchy

nationality

negotiation

the act of electing

legislative

public

economic

municipal or city-wide

tenure or term of office

radical; associated with leftist groups

citation

to search; investigate

bribe

lawmaker

legislator

decree, order

to elect

official hearing

to defend; defense

revolt

to rule as a queen

hanging (to kill)

execution by hanging

documentation

public; revealed

infrastructure

irregularity

crookedness; corruption; anomaly

forcibly own property

candidacy

to confiscate

to nominate

to conspire

to manage

machine gun

mechanism

to nominate [someone]

ammunition

reorganization

to conspire against

to attack [it] or invade [it]

residence certificate

highest leader (e.g., Bonifacio)

splash of water; nabbed (colloq)

smuggler; trafficker

to lord over

persecute; investigate

to play politics

loot; plunder

instability

to nominate

nominated person

annulled; nullified

annulment; nullification

to obligate; to require

oligarch

oligarchy

oppositionist; person who resists or opposes

oppressor; cruel ruler

to confiscate or seize property

to investigate [it]

to suppress [it]

to bribe [someone]

proclaimed innocent; acquitted

activism

appeal

to appeal

exportation

extradition

illegitimate

imperialism

importation

intimidation

capitalism

conference, assembly

copyright

civil rights

consultant; advisory board member

to colonize [it]

conservatism

cordon

to embezzle [it]

barracks

to sign

to investigate

to obligate

to frisk

to colonize

to squander

to ambush

to trample; to violate

magistrate

order or command

to extort

to spy on [someone]

bribing people in authority

to obligate [someone]

to manage [it]

regulation

reformist

lawsuit; to charge; extremely/perfectly

subversive

to suppress

amendment; to amend

to ambush [him/her]

arrested

the accused

deliberations

defection

deposition

deregulation

rape; lewdness; blasphemy

ideology

to elect

to support or uphold [it]

colonize

commissioner

legitimate

trial in court; examination

sit on a throne; seat of honor

to embezzle; misappropriate

to prosecute

to support or champion

to lead or preside

to be nabbed

militia

militarization

nationalist

to bribe someone

presidency

the state of being elected

liberation

release

presidential

politicking

judicial

to politicize

to fire or dismiss from office

a prosecutor

autonomy

political party

to engage in politics

surveillance

justice; fairness

amnesty

arbitration

directive

domination

to appeal to [him/her]

geopolitics

imperialist

infiltration

prison or jail

to extort [from someone]

to squander [it]

to rise up

to plunder

to seize property

to represent

to amend

maneuver; take control

forgery

reign of a queen

reorganize

reparation

connivance; conspiracy

sedition

to oppress

to curb, check, or dominate

to amend [it]

garrote (strangling instrument)

well-guarded, guarded, protected

committee in charge of a task

leadership

appointment or dedication

rajah; title for precolonial chieftains

volley; rapid gun firing

reactionary

to confiscate [it]

to salute

insurrection

rebel

to manage or oversee

oppositor; adversary; competitor

protection; means of defense

to interrogate [someone]

to suppress

anarchist

apolitical

arbitrator

battalion

to plunder [it]

to embezzle [it]

emancipation

emissary

illegality

to represent [it]

cadre

to seize [it]

wife of the kapitan

cacique

conquest

counterrevolution

confederation

title of nobility (pre-Hispanic)

to embezzle

to reorganize

pro-Western

revolutionary

manifesto; statement

queenship

revoke

regionalism

rectify

rectification

closing of a case; end

to arrest or catch in the act

to arrest [someone] or catch [them] in the act

seditious

to oppress; oppressed

to oppress [them]

accusation; indictment

to corner

to relinquish; waive

to trample, crush, or violate

appropriation

accuser, prosecutor

decentralization

desertion

swindle; embezzle

deputy

navy

armed forces

jurisdiction

to have someone freed

to entrust management

to use for politics

colonization

commandant

commissary

commonwealth

to liberate

liberalism

to seize property

militarism

ministerial

moratorium

nationalization

naturalized

autocracy; government by one person

to let reign

status of being appointed

act of reporting to the police

political tactic

to treat like a president

to engage in politics with

call attention to; interrogate

to appraise

anarchy

encomienda (supervised land)

internationalism

to reorganize [it]

capitulation

excessive use of power

confiscator

to be enthroned

warrant; order

to revoke [it]

revocation

regionalist

to corner [it]

to relinquish [it]; to waive [it]

oligarchic

obscurantism; resistance to progress

encomendero (colonial official with land award)

to rectify [it]

village chief (Spanish period)

conqueror

revisionism

revisionist

regent

suffrage

military unit or company

army (land soldiers)

air force

jurisprudence

codification

monarchichal

sodomy

forced evacuation (military)