regime

See also: Regime, régime, and régimé

English

Alternative forms

• régime

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

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.

Derived terms

• exercise regime
• political regime
• regime change

Related terms

• regimen

Translations

mode of rule or management

• Arabic: نِظَام (ar) m (niẓām)
• Catalan: règim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 制度 (zh) (zhìdù), 體制／体制 (zh) (tǐzhì), 体制 (zh) (tǐzhì), 體系／体系 (zh) (tǐxì), 体系 (zh) (tǐxì)

• Czech: režim (cs) m
• Esperanto: reĝimo
• Finnish: hallintomuoto (fi)
• French: régime (fr) m
• Georgian: რეჟიმი (režimi)
• German: Regime (de) n
• Greek: σύστημα (el) n (sýstima), διοίκηση (el) f (dioíkisi)
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• Hungarian: rezsim (hu)
• Indonesian: rezim (id)
• Macedonian: режим m (režim)
• Norman: régînme m
• Persian: رژیم (fa) (režim)
• Polish: reżim (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m, regimento (pt) m
• Russian: режи́м (ru) m (režím)
• Spanish: régimen (es) m
• Vietnamese: chế độ (vi)
• Welsh: cyfundrefn (cy) f

form of government

• Albanian: regjim (sq) m
• Arabic: نِظَام (ar) m (niẓām), سَطْوَة f (saṭwa)
• Armenian: ռեժիմ (hy) (ṙežim)
• Azerbaijani: rejim
• Belarusian: рэжы́м m (režým), лад m (lad)
• Bulgarian: режи́м (bg) m (režím)
• Catalan: règim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政權／政权 (zh) (zhèngquán), 政权 (zh) (zhèngquán)

• Czech: režim (cs) m
• Danish: regime
• Estonian: kord (et)
• Finnish: hallintojärjestelmä, hallitusmuoto (fi)
• French: régime (fr) m
• Georgian: რეჟიმი (režimi)
• German: Regime (de) n
• Greek: καθεστώς (el) n (kathestós), πολίτευμα (el) n (polítevma)
• Hungarian: rezsim (hu)
• Indonesian: rezim (id)
• Irish: réimeas m
• Italian: regime (it) m
• Japanese: 政権 (ja) (せいけん, seiken), 体制 (ja) (たいせい, taisei)
• Kazakh: режим (kk) (rejim)
• Korean: 정권 (ko) (jeonggwon)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

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• Kyrgyz: режим (rejim)
• Latvian: režīms (lv) m
• Lithuanian: režimas m, santvarka f
• Macedonian: режим m (režim)
• Malay: rejim
• Norman: régînme m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regime n

  Nynorsk: regime n

• Persian: رژیم (fa) (režim)
• Polish: reżim (pl) m inan, reżym m inan, ustrój (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m
• Romanian: regim (ro) n
• Russian: режи́м (ru) m (režím)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: режим m

  Roman: režim (sh) m

• Slovak: režim m
• Slovene: režim (sl) m
• Spanish: régimen (es) m
• Swedish: regim (sv) c
• Tajik: режим (režim)
• Turkish: rejim (tr)
• Turkmen: režim
• Ukrainian: режи́м m (režým), лад (uk) m (lad)
• Uzbek: rejim (uz)
• Vietnamese: chế độ (vi)

period of rule

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政权统治时期

• Finnish: hallintokausi, valtakausi (fi)
• French: régime (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Regime (de) n
• Hungarian: rezsim (hu)
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• Indonesian: rezim (id)
• Macedonian: режим m (režim)
• Norman: régînme m
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m
• Russian: режи́м (ru) m (režím)
• Spanish: régimen (es) m
• Vietnamese: chế độ (vi)

regulated system

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政治制度 (zhèngzhì zhìdù)

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• Finnish: hallintojärjestelmä, järjestelmä (fi)
• Portuguese: regime (pt) m

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} regime (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} reĝimo
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} regime (it)
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• Latin: ^{(please verify)} regimen
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} régimen (es) m

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

• emigre, emigré, émigré

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁeˈɕiːmə/

Noun

regime n (singular definite regimet, plural indefinite regimer)

1. regime

Declension

Declension of regime

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	regime	regimet	regimer	regimerne
genitive	regimes	regimets	regimers	regimernes

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French régime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rəˈʒim/, /reːˈʒim/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧me
• Rhymes: -im

Noun

regime n (plural regimes, diminutive regimetje n)

1. regime (political order)

   Synonyms: regeringsstelsel, staatsbestel

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

Related terms

• regeren
• regering
• regiment

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin regimen.

Noun

regime m (plural regimi)

1. regime, régime
2. regimen

Synonyms

• dieta

Related terms

• regimare

Anagrams

• emergi
• emigre

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French régime

Noun

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

1. regime (form of government)

Derived terms

• kommunistregime
• terrorregime

References

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French régime

Noun

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

1. regime (form of government)

Derived terms

• kommunistregime
• terrorregime

References

• “regime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈʒimɨ/
• Hyphenation: re‧gi‧me

Noun

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)

Synonyms

• (diet): dieta

Related terms

• regimento

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Rëschimm

Further reading

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