regime
/ɹəˈʒiːm/
regime noun: mode of rule or management.
Noun
regime (plural regimes)
- Mode of rule or management.
- a prison regime
- A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
- the dictator's regime
- Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
- A period of rule.
- A regulated system; a regimen.
- a fitness regime
- For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.1988 December 11, Cheryl Clarke, “Still Shouting Down The Silence”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7
- A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
- A set of characteristics.
- A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
regime meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
regime in Hindi
- form of government
- शासन śāsan, प्रशासन praśāsan
regime in Tamil
- ஆட்சி, ஆட்சிமை
regime in Urdu
- regime
- رژیم raźīm
regime in Bengali
- শাসন, সরকার, আমল
More languagesFewer languages
- regime in Malayalam
- രാജ്യഭരണരീതി, ശാസനം, വാഴ്ച
- regime in Kannada
- ಆಡಳಿತ, ಆಳ್ವಿಕೆ
- regime in Arabic
- نِظَام niẓām, سَطْوَة saṭwa
- regime in Malay
- rejim
- regime in Indonesian
- rezim
- regime in Thai
- ระบอบ rá-bɔ̀ɔp, ระบอบการปกครอง rá-bɔ̀ɔp gaan-bpòk-krɔɔng
- regime in Vietnamese
- chế độ
Examples of regime in a sentence
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime.2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- 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.2017, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Cake Is Just the Beginning”, in Slate:
Forms of regime
| plural | regimes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | régime |
Origin of regime
From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.
Words formed from regime
Phrases with regime
Words that rhyme with regime
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- deem
- dream
- scream
- team
- academe
- bream
- downstream
- esteem
- forebeam
- supreme
- teem
- A team
- ice cream
- under one's own steam
- abeam
- addeem
- astream
- beseem
- centime
- decime
- deme
- fleam
- inseam
- Karim
- preem
- rheme
- seem
- agleam
- breme
- buffer beam
- distream
- foredream
- haem
- heme
- Kareem
- kilim
- leam
- leme
- let off steam
- meem
- misesteem
- misseem
- neem
- on stream
- prime
- redream
- reem
- reim
Questions about regime
- What does regime mean?
- Regime means mode of rule or management.
- What is regime in Hindi?
- Regime in Hindi is शासन (śāsan), प्रशासन (praśāsan). See Regime meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use regime in a sentence?
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime.
- What part of speech is regime?
- Regime is a noun.
- How do you pronounce regime?
- Regime is pronounced /ɹəˈʒiːm/.
- What is the plural of regime?
- The plural of regime is regimes.
Words near regime in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: regime (page history and authors); regime (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); رژیم (Urdu) (page history and authors); regime (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regime (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); regime (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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