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David couldn′t drive his car as he hadn′t paid his rego.
(countable,colloquial,Australia,New Zealand) The registration number of a motor vehicle, used by police to access registration details such as the identity of the owner.
1984, Renfrey Clarke, The Picket: Tasmanian Mine Workers Defend Their Jobs, page 84:
“They also got the regos of the cars. There were two commercial travelers whose cars were trapped inside by the pickets, and they got hit with writs.[…]”
2010, Alex Palmer, The Labyrinth of Drowning, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page:
A line of cars was parked along one side, presumably belonging to the sex workers and their clients. ‘Get their regos,’ Borghini said to one of his people.
“rego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“rego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
rego in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum regere, coercere, cohibere
to keep house: rem domesticam, familiarem administrare, regere, curare
to govern, administer the state: rem publicam gerere, administrare, regere, tractare, gubernare
aristocracy (as a form of government): civitas, quae optimatium arbitrio regitur
(ambiguous) to belong to the king's bodyguard: a latere regis esse
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 517-8