Meaning of regime | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Mode of rule or management.
2. Alternative spelling of regime.
   alt-of, alternative
3. A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
4. A system by which a political unit is controlled:governance, government, rule.
5. regimen
6. A period of rule.
7. a (system of) government. a Communist régime. regime نِظام أو أُسْلوب حُكْم режим regime režim das Regierungssystem regime καθεστώςrégimen režiim نظام؛ رژیم hallitusjärjestelmä régimeמשטר शासन पद्धतियां, व्यवस्था režim rendszer rezim (einræðis)stjórn-/stjórnarfar regime 政体 정치 제도 režimas, santvarka režīms; valsts iekārta rejim regimestyre, system, regimereżim, system rządów رژيم، نظام ، دحكومت دادارى ډول، دخوړو دود دخوراك ترتيب، پرهيز، دژوند لاره regime regim режим, строи režim režim režim reg...
8. scheme (e.g. a pension scheme, an aid scheme, a loan scheme)
9. A regulated system; a regimen.
10. régimen, regla, plan, esp. en referencia a una dieta o ejercicio físico.
11. A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
12. A government, especially an oppressive or undemocratic one: a fascist regime.
13. A set of characteristics.
14. A way of organizing or managing something; a system: an admissions regime at a college.
15. The period during which a particular administration or system prevails.
16. A prevailing pattern of water flow, as of a river.
17. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a system of government or a particular administration: a fascist regime; the regime of Fidel Castro.
18. (Sociology) a social system or order
19. (Medicine) med another word for regimen1
    med

Equivalents

Examples

“a prison regime”

“the dictator's regime”

“Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.”

“a fitness regime”

“For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.”

“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 […].”

“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.”

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

“1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, pages 5 and 46 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN There are many “Foucaults” — whether they are all texts, or features in a network of institutional power, a régime of truth and knowledge, or the discourse of the author and his works. Personalities like Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) silenced condemnation of madness. He abolished régimes of silence that reformers had employed. He made the mad talk. But he also developed the structure which included the medical personage — him — as omnipotent and quasi-divine.”

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