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Regime

//ɹəˈʒiːm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Mode of rule or management.

    "a prison regime"

  2. 2
    (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) wordnet
  3. 3
    A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.

    "the dictator's regime"

  4. 4
    the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit wordnet
  5. 5
    A period of rule.
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  1. 6
    A regulated system; a regimen.

    "a fitness regime"

  2. 7
    A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
  3. 8
    A set of characteristics.

    "A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May."

Etymology

From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.

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