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/

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• 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 totalitarian 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. 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.

Usage notes

• 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.

Derived terms

• exercise regime
• political regime
• regime change

Related terms

• regimen

Translations

mode of rule or management

• Arabic: نِظَام‎ (ar) m (niẓām)
• Belarusian: рэжы́м m (režým)
• Bulgarian: режи́м (bg) m (režím), строй (bg) m (stroj)
• Catalan: règim (ca) m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: režim (cs) m
• Esperanto: reĝimo
• Finnish: hallintomalli, hallinto (fi)
• French: régime (fr) m
• Galician: réxime m
• Georgian: რეჟიმი (režimi)
• German: Regime (de) n
• Greek: σύστημα (el) n (sýstima), διοίκηση (el) f (dioíkisi)
• Hebrew: משטר‎ (he) (mishtár)
• Hungarian: rezsim (hu)
• Indonesian: rezim (id)
• Japanese: 制度 (ja) (せいど, seido)
• Kazakh: тәртіп (kk) (tärtıp), тәртіптеме (tärtıpteme)
• Korean: 제도(制度) (ko) (jedo)
• 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), строй (ru) m (stroj)
• Slovak: režim m
• Spanish: régimen (es) m
• Ukrainian: режи́м m (režým)
• Vietnamese: chế độ (vi) (制度)
• Welsh: cyfundrefn (cy) f

form of government

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

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

• Czech: režim (cs) m
• Danish: regime
• Estonian: kord (et)
• Finnish: hallintojärjestelmä, hallitusmuoto (fi), järjestelmä (fi)
• French: régime (fr) m
• Galician: réxime m
• Georgian: რეჟიმი (režimi)
• German: Regime (de) n
• Greek: καθεστώς (el) n (kathestós), πολίτευμα (el) n (polítevma)
• Hebrew: משטר‎ (he) (mishtár)
• Hindi: शासन (hi) m (śāsan), प्रशासन (hi) m (praśāsan)
• 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), レジーム (ja) (rejīmu)
• Kazakh: режим (kk) (rejim)
• Korean: 정권(政權) (ko) (jeonggwon), 체제(體制) (ko) (cheje)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ڕژێم‎ (ku) (rjêm)

  Northern Kurdish: rejîm (ku)

• 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)
• Plautdietsch: Rejierunk f
• 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), строй (ru) m (stroj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рѐжӣм m

  Roman: rèžīm (sh) m

• Slovak: režim m
• Slovene: režim (sl) m
• Spanish: régimen (es) m
• Swedish: regim (sv) c
• Tajik: режим (režim)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: rejim (tr)
• Turkmen: režim
• Ukrainian: режи́м m (režým), лад (uk) m (lad)
• Uzbek: rejim (uz)
• Vietnamese: chế độ (vi) (制度)

period of rule

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政權統治時期, 政权统治时期 (zhèngquán tǒngzhì shíqí)

• Finnish: valtakausi (fi), hallintokausi
• French: régime (fr) m
• Galician: réxime m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Regime (de) n
• Hungarian: rezsim (hu)
• 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) (制度)

regulated system

• Bulgarian: режи́м (bg) m (režím)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 養生法 (zh), 养生法 (zh) (yǎngshēngfǎ), 養生術, 养生術 (yǎngshēngshù)

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

division of a Mafia crime family

hydrology: set of characteristics

• Finnish: säännöstely (fi)

Further reading

• regime in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• regime in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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/

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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

Descendants

• → Indonesian: rezim

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin regimen.

Pronunciation

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

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒĩ.mi/ [heˈʒĩ.mi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒĩ.mi/ [heˈʒĩ.mi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒĩ.mi/ [χeˈʒĩ.mi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʁeˈʒi.me/ [heˈʒi.me]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʁɨˈʒi.m(ɨ)/

• 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)

   Synonym: dieta

Related terms

• regimento

Descendants

• Hunsrik: Rëschimm

Further reading

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