regime

also n.

1. 1. A form of government: a fascist regime.
   2. A government in power; administration: suffered under the new regime.
2. A prevailing social system or pattern.
3. The period during which a particular administration or system prevails.
4. A regulated system, as of diet and exercise; a regimen.

[French régime, from Old French, from Latin regimen, from regere, to rule.]

noun

A system by which a political unit is controlled: governance, government, rule. See politics.

A recurring pattern, as in the seasonal pattern of climates or the yearly fluctuations in the volume of a river or a glacier.

A system of government or administration. The most common use of this promiscuous term in recent years has been in the phrase ‘military regime’. So while any government may be termed a regime, be it monarchical, aristocratic, republican, or tyrannical, the term unavoidably conjures up memories of tanks in the streets in Latin America and Eastern Europe. This is to be regretted, since it has two more technical senses in which it may not easily be replaced. First, when governments come and go with bewildering frequency, as in nineteenth-century Spain or post-1945 Italy, there may still be an absence of fundamental or revolutionary change. In these circumstances it is possible to speak of regime continuity. Alternatively, and more rarely, a change of regime (from constitutional monarchy to tyranny, or from dispersed to centralized government) may be achieved without a change in government, as in the move from parliamentary to personal rule by Charles I of England, or under Margaret Thatcher. Secondly, in international relations the difficulty of accommodating the rise of non-state actors within state-centric realist models of explanation has led to use of the term ‘regime’ to cover norm-bound interactions relating to issues such as the global environment or human rights, in which states, international organizations, transnational corporations, individuals, and worldwide pressure groups like Greenpeace or Amnesty International all take part.

— Charles Jones

(ray-zheem, ri-zheem)

An administration, or a system of managing government.

IN BRIEF: Particular conduct or administration of affairs.

This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. — George Bruce Cortelyou (1862-1940)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - regime, regeringsform, -ordning, -system

Nederlands (Dutch)
regime, een bepaald bewind (negatief), regeringsstelsel, voorschriften van instelling, dieet/kuur, natuurlijk verloop/ systeem

Français (French)
n. - (Pol) régime, (Méd) régime (sout)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Regime, System, Methode

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καθεστώς, πολίτευμα, (ιατρ.) αγωγή, δίαιτα

Italiano (Italian)
regime

Português (Portuguese)
n. - regime (m), forma de governo (f)

Русский (Russian)
режим

Español (Spanish)
n. - régimen, sistema de gobierno

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - regim, system

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
政体, 政权制度, 政权

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 政體, 政權制度, 政權

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 제도, 정권, 체제

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 政治体制, 政体, 政権, 制度

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نظام سياسي, حميه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮משטר, שלטון, משטר בריאות‬

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