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regime

noun
/ɹəˈʒiːm/

Etymology

From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.

  1. derived from regimen
  2. derived from regime
  3. inherited from regime

Definitions

  1. Mode of rule or management.

    • a prison regime

  2. A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or…

    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. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A regulated system

      A regulated system; a regimen.

      • a fitness regime
      • For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.

    2. A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.

    3. A set of characteristics.

      • A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.

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Derived

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

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