regime

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Mode of rule or management.

   a prison regime

2. 2
   noun

   A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.

   the dictator's regime

3. 3
   noun

   A regulated system; a regimen.

   a fitness regime

4. 4
   noun

   A set of characteristics.

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

5. 5
   noun

   (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)

6. 6
   noun

   the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

7. 7
   noun

   A period of rule.

8. 8
   noun

   A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.

Etymology

From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.