regime

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Alternative formsEdit

régime

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

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.
A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
(hydrology) A set of characteristics.
A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.

Usage notesEdit

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 termsEdit

Related termsEdit

regimen

TranslationsEdit

mode of rule or management

Arabic: نِظَام‎ (ar) m (niẓām)
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: hallintomuoto (fi)
French: régime (fr) m
Galician: réxime m
Georgian: რეჟიმი (režimi)
German: Regime (de) n
Greek: σύστημα (el) n (sýstima), διοίκηση (el) f (dioíkisi)

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 (zh), 政权 (zh) (zhèngquán)
Czech: režim (cs) m
Danish: regime
Estonian: kord (et)
Finnish: hallintojärjestelmä, hallitusmuoto (fi)
French: régime (fr) m
Galician: réxime 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) (rejïm)
Korean: 정권 (ko) (jeonggwon)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕژێم‎ (ku) (rjêm)

Northern Kurdish: rejîm (ku)

Kyrgyz: режим (recim)
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)
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)
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)

period of rule

Chinese:
Mandarin: 政权统治时期
Finnish: hallintokausi, valtakausi (fi)
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)

regulated system

Chinese:
Mandarin: 政治制度

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

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