regime

Plural: regimes

Noun

• A system or planned way of doing things, especially a government.
• the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
• (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
• Mode of rule or management.
• A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
• A period of rule.
• A regulated system; a regimen.
• A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
• A set of characteristics.

Examples

• a fitness regime
• a prison regime
• A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
• Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
• the dictator's regime
• Under the new Words With Friends regime, challenging words became more frequent.

Synonyms

authorities, government, regimen

Related Words

regimen