Noun: regime
| Singular | regime |
| Plural | regimes |
Sample Sentences
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a prison regime
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the dictator's regime
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Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
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a fitness regime
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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:]
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It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […]. [2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:]
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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:]
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A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
Nouns inflected like regime
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen. See: Middle English Nouns '
regime', Latin Nouns '
regimen'.