regime

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See also: Regime, régime, and régimé

English

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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, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
    the dictator's regime
    Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
  3. A period of rule.
  4. A regulated system; a regimen.
    a fitness regime
    • 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, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Cake Is Just the Beginning”, in 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.

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Danish

Pronunciation

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

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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
    Het nieuwe regime bracht veel beloofde veranderingen. ― The new regime brought many promised changes.
    Het land heeft in de afgelopen decennia verschillende regimes gehad. ― The country has had various regimes over the past decades.
  2. regime (undemocratic political order or government)
    De bevolking protesteerde tegen het onderdrukkende regime. ― The population protested against the oppressive regime.
    Veel mensen vluchtten vanwege het autoritaire regime. ― Many people fled because of the authoritarian regime.
  3. regimen, diet
    Zijn dokter stelde een strikt regime voor om gewicht te verliezen. ― His doctor prescribed a strict regimen to lose weight.
    Een gebalanceerd regime kan bijdragen aan een betere gezondheid. ― A balanced diet can contribute to better health.

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Descendants

  • → Indonesian: rezim

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

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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)

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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)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regimen. Doublet of regímen.

Pronunciation

 

  • 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. regimen (all senses)
  5. diet (controlled regimen of food and drink)
    Synonym: dieta

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Further reading

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

Spanish

Verb

regime

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of regir combined with me
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