regime

• régime

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

• IPA^(key): /ɹəˈʒiːm/, /ɹeɪˈʒiːm/, /ˈɹeɪʒiːm/

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• Rhymes: -iːm

regime (plural regimes)

1. Mode of rule or management.

   a prison regime

2. A form of government, or the government in power.

   a totalitarian regime

   Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.

3. A period of rule.
4. A regulated system; a regimen.

   a fitness regime

   • 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. A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
6. (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 a form or instance of government or state, it is usually meant as a pejorative, and may be intended to brand that government or state as illegitimate or authoritarian. Some usage commentators prescribe that when regime is used in the sense of "a regulated system; a regimen," such as for health or fitness regimens, the word regimen should be used instead. But Garner's Modern English Usage, fourth edition, says that the word regime predominates in that sense in British English and that the word regimen predominates in that sense in American English; this difference suggests that that prescription has been taken up more in America than in Britain.

• 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, →OCLC.

• emigre, emigré, émigré

• IPA^(key): /ʁeˈɕiːmə/

regime n (singular definite regimet, plural indefinite regimer)

1. regime

• “regime” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “regime” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from French régime.

• IPA^(key): /rəˈʒim/, /reːˈʒim/

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• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧me
• Rhymes: -im

regime n (plural regimes, diminutive regimetje n)

1. regime (political order)

   Synonyms: regeringsstelsel, staatsbestel

2. regime (undemocratic political order or government)
3. regimen, diet

• regeren
• regering
• regiment

• → Indonesian: rezim

From Latin regimen.

• IPA^(key): /reˈd͡ʒi.me/
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: re‧gì‧me

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. 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. regime (form of government)

• kommunistregime
• terrorregime

• “regime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.

• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧me

regime m (plural regimes)

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

   Synonym: dieta

• regimento

• → Hunsrik: Rëschimm

• “regime” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

regime

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of regir combined with me