regime
Mode of rule or management.
Other meanings
A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
“Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.”
A period of rule.
Related words
- antiregime
- counterregime
- cryoregime
- multiregime
- nanoregime
- photoregime
- ancient regime
- exercise regime
- collaborationist regime
- disturbance regime
- epistemic regime
- fire regime
Word history
From Latin "regimen" (direction, government).
Where this comes from
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