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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French
Noun
régime (plural régimes)
- Alternative spelling of regime
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, pages 5{1} and 46{2} (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
- {1} There are many “Foucaults” — whether they are all texts, or features in a network of institutional power, a régime of truth and knowledge, or the discourse of the author and his works.
- {2} Personalities like Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) silenced condemnation of madness. He abolished régimes of silence that reformers had employed. He made the mad talk. But he also developed the structure which included the medical personage — him — as omnipotent and quasi-divine.
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin regimen.
Pronunciation
Noun
régime m (plural régimes)
- regime
- (politics) kind of political system; regimen
- (grammar) regimen
- (technical) operating mode
- régime de maintenance ― maintenance mode
- (dietetics, nutrition) diet
- (botany) clump of fruits on the end of a branch (in palms, bananas, etc)
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Verb
régime
- inflection of régimer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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