regime
//ɹəˈʒiːm//
formalForms
- Plural
- regimes
Definitions
1.Mode of rule or management.
2.A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
- Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
3.A period of rule.
4.A regulated system; a regimen.
- For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2139
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”).
Doublet of regimen.