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regime

a system of government; a mode of rule: a dictatorial regime

Not to be confused with:

regimen – regulated course, as of diet or exercise: a health regimen

regiment – a military unit of ground forces: He sent three regiments into battle.

re·gime

also ré·gime (rā-zhēm′, rĭ-)

a. A government, especially an oppressive or undemocratic one: a fascist regime.

b. A usually heavy-handed administration or group in charge of an organization: Raises were canceled under the new regime.

a. A way of organizing or managing something; a system: an admissions regime at a college.

b. A regulated system of diet, exercise, or medical treatment; a regimen.

3. The period during which a particular administration or system prevails.

4. A prevailing pattern of water flow, as of a river.

[French régime, from Old French, from Latin regimen, from regere, to rule; see reg- in Indo-European roots.]

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regime

(reɪˈʒiːm) or

régime

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a system of government or a particular administration: a fascist regime; the regime of Fidel Castro.

2. (Sociology) a social system or order

3. (Medicine) med another word for regimen¹

[C18: from French, from Latin regimen guidance, from regere to rule]

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re•gime

or ré•gime

(rəˈʒim, reɪ-)

n.

1. a system of rule or government.

2. a ruling system.

3. a government in power.

4. the period during which a particular ruling system is in power.

5. regimen (def. 1).

[1770–80; < French régime < Latin regimen regimen]

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Noun	1.	regime - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities" authorities, government governing, government activity, government, governance, administration - the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" polity - a politically organized unit authoritarian regime, authoritarian state - a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people bureaucracy - a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials ancien regime - a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution) royal court, court - the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state Downing Street - the British government empire - a group of countries under a single authority; "the British created a great empire" federal government - a government with strong central powers government-in-exile - a temporary government moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to rule when their country is liberated local government - the government of a local area military government, stratocracy - government by the military and an army palace - the governing group of a kingdom; "the palace issued an order binding on all subjects" papacy, pontificate - the government of the Roman Catholic Church government department - a department of government law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislature, general assembly - persons who make or amend or repeal laws governance, governing body, organisation, administration, brass, establishment, organization - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment" executive - persons who administer the law judiciary, bench - persons who administer justice judicatory, judicial system, judiciary, judicature - the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government pupet regime, puppet government, puppet state - a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed state - the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax" division - an administrative unit in government or business state government - the government of a state in the United States totalitarian state, totalitation regime - a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures government officials, officialdom - people elected or appointed to administer a government
	2.	regime - (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) regimen plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue" medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

regime

noun

1. government, rule, authorities, management, administration, leadership, establishment, reign the collapse of the fascist regime

2. plan, course, system, policy, programme, scheme, diet, arrangement, procedure, regimen a drastic regime of economic reform

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regime

noun

A system by which a political unit is controlled:

governance, government, rule.

Translations

نِظام أو أُسْلوب حُكْم

režim

regime

stjórn-/stjórnarfar

regime forma di governo

valsts iekārta

režim

régime

regime [reɪˈʒiːm] N

1. (Pol) → régimen m
the ancien régime → el antiguo régimen
under the Nazi régime → bajo el régimen de los nazis

2. (= system, programme) → régimen m

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regime

régime [reɪˈʒiːm] n

(= rulers) → régime m
a military regime → un régime militaire
the Franco regime → le régime de Franco

(= organizational system) → régime m
a strict prison regime → un régime carcéral strict

(= diet and exercise) → régime m de vie
From now on you must keep to a really strict regime of diet and exercise → À partir de maintenant, vous devez suivre un régime de vie vraiment strict fondé sur une bonne alimentation et de l'exercice physique.
a fitness regime → un régime de remise en formeregime change n → changement m de régime

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regime

(Pol) → Regime nt; regime change → Führungswechsel m

(fig: = management, social system etc) → System nt

= regimen

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régime

[reɪˈʒiːm] n → regime m

régime,

regime

(reiˈʒiːm) noun

a (system of) government. a Communist régime.

regime

n. régimen, regla, plan, esp. en referencia a una dieta o ejercicio físico.

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I think it will be difficult to return to the old regime."

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Just as she was she could have sat in advance for the portrait of the young daughter of the Regent d'Orleans, at the famous dinner whence she was carried, foul-mouthed, intoxicated, and helpless, to her bed, in the lost and lamented days of the Ancient Regime.

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Under the old regime it required sixty priests to engineer it--the Government does it with five, now, and the others are discharged from service.

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It was a logical and crushing indictment of the whole system of education that developed in the minds of the students only such ideas as were favorable to the capitalistic regime, to the exclusion of all ideas that were inimical and subversive.

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From an exhausted nation they might make a great and strong one, and I know more than one state in old Europe which ought to put itself under the regime of oxygen for the sake of its health!"