regime

See also: Regime, régime, and régimé

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from French régime, from Latin regimen (direction, government). Doublet of regimen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹəˈʒim/, /ˈɹeɪʒim/

Noun

regime (plural regimes)

  1. Mode of rule or management.
    a prison regime
  2. A form of government, or the government in power.
    a capitalist regime
  3. A period of rule.
  4. A regulated system; a regimen.
    a fitness regime
    Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
    • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
      It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today [].
    • 2017: "The Cake Is Just the Beginning" by Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
      Gorsuch’s theory would hobble this nondiscrimination regime by preventing the government from directing employers to tell employees about their rights and responsibilities under law.
  5. (hydrology) A set of characteristics.
    A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.

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Further reading

  • regime in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • regime in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

regime n (plural regimes, diminutive regimetje n)

  1. regime
  2. regimen, diet

Italian

Etymology

From Latin regimen.

Noun

regime m (plural regimi)

  1. regime, régime
  2. regimen

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French régime

Noun

regime n (definite singular regimet, indefinite plural regimer, definite plural regima or regimene)

  1. a regime (form of government)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French régime

Noun

regime n (definite singular regimet, indefinite plural regime, definite plural regima)

  1. a regime (form of government)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.

Noun

regime m (plural regimes)

  1. regime (mode of rule or management)
  2. regime (form of government)
  3. regime (period of rule)
  4. diet (controlled regimen of food and drink)

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