regime
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French régime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.
Pronunciation
Noun
regime (plural regimes)
- Mode of rule or management.
- a prison regime
- A form of government, or the government in power.
- a capitalist regime
- A period of rule.
- 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.
- (hydrology) A set of characteristics.
- A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
Usage notes
- 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.
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Translations
mode of rule or management
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form of government
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period of rule
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regulated system
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Further reading
- “regime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “regime”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
regime n (singular definite regimet, plural indefinite regimer)
Declension
Declension of regime
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | regime | regimet | regimer | regimerne |
genitive | regimes | regimets | regimers | regimernes |
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Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
regime n (plural regimes, diminutive regimetje n)
- regime (political order)
- Synonyms: regeringsstelsel, staatsbestel
- regime (undemocratic political order or government)
- regimen, diet
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Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
regime m (plural regimi)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
regime n (definite singular regimet, indefinite plural regimer, definite plural regima or regimene)
- regime (form of government)
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
regime n (definite singular regimet, indefinite plural regime, definite plural regima)
- regime (form of government)
Derived terms
References
- “regime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.
Pronunciation
Noun
regime m (plural regimes)
- regime (mode of rule or management)
- regime (form of government)
- regime (period of rule)
- diet (controlled regimen of food and drink)
Synonyms
- (diet): dieta
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Descendants
- Hunsrik: Rëschimm
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