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regime Definition

re·gime (rə z̸hēm′, rā-)

noun

    1. a form of government or rule; political system
    2. a particular administration or government
  2. a social system or order
  3. the period of time that a person or system is in power
  4. regimen (sense )

Etymology: Fr régime < L regimen: see regimen

regime Synonyms

regime

n.

administration, management, political system; see administration 2, 3, government 1, 2.

regime Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • bonapartism: A regime of bourgeois Bonapartism in Russia or Poland would not be a stable regime.

Possessives

  • shah: An insurance carrier shah's regime early brown just thinks.

Converse of object

  • overthrow: President Bush announced that diplomacy had failed and consequently the United States has the right to enforce United Nations resolutions to overthrow brutal regimes.
  • simplify: Administration The complex approval process for pension schemes will be replaced by a simplified regime requiring registration only.
  • mow: Can I have different mowing regimes on the site?
  • strengthen: The specter of nuclear terrorism has placed a new premium on the need to strengthen the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
  • impose: It remains to be seen whether other schools will follow Victoria Infants ' lead and impose a similar inspection regime.
  • introduce: However, the CPR introduced an entirely new regime.

Adjective modifier

  • regulatory: These objectives are central to the new regulatory regime created by the Act.
  • Iraqi: The Iraqi regime got the raw materials for producing chemical weapons from Germany.
  • repressive: Burma is one of the most repressive regimes in the world.
  • communist: Looking back to the end of those Communist regimes, he says memories are short.

Noun used with modifier

  • non-proliferation: The specter of nuclear terrorism has placed a new premium on the need to strengthen the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
  • licensing: Thank you for taking the time to support the development of the licensing regime within the Boro.
  • sanction: A new set of proposals for modifying the sanctions regime was launched by the UK, with US backing, in May 2001.
  • nonproliferation: There are actions that we all can and must take to strengthen the nuclear nonproliferation regime at the various levels on which it operates.
  • inspection: Control of infection is to be put " at the heart of inspection regimes " .
regime Quotes

To be in love with a country or a political regime is a tricky business.You get your heart broken even more surely than by being in love with a person.

—Lessing, Doris May ne¤  e Tayler

If the individual isno longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib†we enter a new regime.

—Douglas, (George) Norman