regime
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈʒiːm/
The English word “regime” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- Mode of rule or management.
- A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
- A period of rule.
- A regulated system; a regimen.
- A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
- A set of characteristics.
Etymology
From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.
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