regime

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 25.80 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Mode of rule or management.

   a prison regime

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

   the dictator's regime

3. noun A period of rule.
4. noun A regulated system; a regimen.

   a fitness regime

5. noun A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
6. noun A set of characteristics.

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

Similar words

government authorities regimen system dictatorship polity governance junta liberalisation reign

Often followed by

of in and was is to that for had

Word family

regimes régime régimes