regiment

Plural: regiments

Noun

• army unit smaller than a division
• A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units.
• Rule or governance over a person, place etc.; government, authority.
• The state or office of a ruler; rulership.
• Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet).
• A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.
• A regimen.

Verb

Verb Forms: regimented, regimenting, regiments

• To organize or control strictly.
• subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization
  • "regiment one's children"
• form (military personnel) into a regiment
• assign to a regiment
  • "regiment soldiers"
• To form soldiers into a regiment.
• To systematize, or put in rigid order.

Examples

• The Scrabble rules don’t regiment where you can place words, only how they connect.

Anagrams of regiment