Regimen
/ˈɹɛd͡ʒ.ɪ.mən/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Orderly government; system of order; administration.
"In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens."
- 2 (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) wordnet
- 3 Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
"Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…]"
- 4 Object.
"(3.) Verbs admit two kinds of regimen: the direct regimen and the indirect regimen. (4.) The direct regimen, or immediate object … (5.) The indirect regimen, or remote object [....]"
- 5 A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
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- 6 Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons. dated
Example
More examples"I am adhering to a strict diet regimen."
Etymology
From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.