regimen

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From Latin regimen (guidance, direction, government, rule) < regere (to rule).

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Singular
regimen

Plural
regimens

regimen (plural regimens)

  1. Orderly government; system of order; administration.
  2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
  3. (grammar) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.

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