regime
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French régime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
regime (plural regimes)
- Mode of rule or management.
- a prison regime
- A form of government, or the government in power.
- a totalitarian 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 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.
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TranslationsEdit
mode of rule or management
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form of government
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period of rule
regulated system
Further readingEdit
- regime in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- regime in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
regime n (singular definite regimet, plural indefinite regimer)
DeclensionEdit
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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DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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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DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: rezim
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
regime m (plural regimi)
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Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
regime n (definite singular regimet, indefinite plural regimer, definite plural regima or regimene)
- regime (form of government)
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ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
regime n (definite singular regimet, indefinite plural regime, definite plural regima)
- regime (form of government)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “regime” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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)
- Synonym: dieta
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DescendantsEdit
- Hunsrik: Rëschimm
Further readingEdit
- “regime” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913