Regime

noun

/ɹeɪˈʒiːm/

Word Frequency: 25.8

Definitions

1.nounMode of rule or management.

"a prison regime"

2.nounA form of government, or the government in power.

"a capitalist regime"

3.nounA period of rule.

4.nounA regulated system; a regimen.

"Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes."

5.nounA division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.

6.nounA set of characteristics.

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

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