regime

• régime

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈʒim/, /ˈɹeɪʒim/

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.

• When regime is used in the sense of form of government, it is usually meant as a pejorative, and may be intended to brand that government as illegitimate or authoritarian.

• exercise regime
• political regime
• regime change

• regimen

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

• emigre, emigré, émigré

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regime n (plural regimes, diminutive regimetje n)

1. regime
2. regimen, diet

From Latin regimen.

regime m (plural regimi)

1. regime, régime
2. regimen

• dieta

• regimare

• emergi
• emigre

From French régime

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

1. a regime (form of government)

• kommunistregime
• terrorregime

• “regime” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “regime” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From French régime

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

1. a regime (form of government)

• kommunistregime
• terrorregime

• “regime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.

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)

• (diet): dieta

• regimento