regime
noun/ɹəˈʒiːm/ · /ɹeɪˈʒiːm/
Etymology From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.
1
Mode of rule or management.
- a prison regime
2
A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
- the dictator's regime
- Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
3
A period of rule.
4
A regulated system; a regimen.
- a fitness regime
- For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.1988 December 11, Cheryl Clarke, “Still Shouting Down The Silence”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7:
2 more examples
- 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 […].2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- 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.2017, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Cake Is Just the Beginning”, in Slate:
5
A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
- A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
- Derived terms
- ancient regime, antiregime, collaborationist regime, counterregime, cryoregime, disturbance regime, epistemic regime, exercise regime, fire regime, hybrid regime, multiregime, nanoregime, old regime, photoregime, political regime, puppet regime, regime change, rogue regime, Zionist regime
- Related terms
- regimen