regime
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re·gime
also ré·gime (rā-zhēm', rĭ-) 
n.
n.
- A form of government: a fascist regime.
- A government in power; administration: suffered under the new regime.
- A prevailing social system or pattern.
- The period during which a particular administration or system prevails.
- A regulated system, as of diet and exercise; a regimen.
[French régime, from Old French, from Latin regimen, from regere, to rule.]
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is fully naturalized in terms of spelling, but is still pronounced in a French manner. Regime change is a pair of words that chance might throw together at any time (the earliest occurrence found by the Old English (up to 1150)D editors happens to be from 1925), but events at the start of the 21th century have brought it forcibly to our attention and have even given it a deep aura of euphemism, since what it means in practice is the violent overthrow of a foreign government by a power who regards that government as hostile. It therefore joins the stock of politically sanitized expressions alongside collateral damage, ethnic cleansing, and others (see euphemism).
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regime
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A recurring pattern, as in the seasonal pattern of climates or the yearly fluctuations in the volume of a river or a glacier.
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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
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(ray-zheem, ri-zheem)
An administration, or a system of managing government.
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regime
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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- Activities and Treatments - regime: program or system of exercise and nutrition for better health; regimen
- Forms, Systems, and Philosophies - regime: system of administration and its practitioners
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The word regime (also "régime", from the original French pronunciation) refers to a set of conditions, most often of a political nature.
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Politics
In politics, a regime is the [form of government]: the set of rules, cultural or social norms, etc. that regulate the operation of government and its interactions with society.
Modern usage
While the word regime originates as a synomym for any form of government, modern usage often gives the term a negative connotation, like an authoritarian government or dictatorship. Webster's definition states that the word "regime" refers simply to a form of government [1], while Oxford English Dictionary defines regime as "a government, especially an authoritarian one" [2]. Nowadays the political use the word regime is most commonly applied to any government that is most of the time not democratically elected and impose strict and often arbitrary rules and laws on the people that are, because of the undemocratic nature of the government, non-negotiable.
International regime
International political use of "regime" concerns international regulatory agencies (see International regime), which lie outside of the control of national governments. These have more power over a greater range than postal or telecommunications agreements, for example, and constrain national governments.[citation needed]
Science
See also: Fire regime and River regime
In scientific discussions, a regime is a class of physical conditions, usually parameterised by some specific measures, where a particular physical phenomenon or boundary condition is significant. Very often a regime corresponds to a limiting condition. The region of measurable parameter space that corresponds to a regime is very often loosely defined. Examples include "the superfluid regime",[3] "the steady state regime"[4] or "the femtosecond regime".[5]
In geography and hydrography, "regime" refers to the changing conditions of river beds and other features, such as systems of sandbars.
See also
- Ancien Régime
- Carbon audit regime
- Exchange rate regime
- International regime
- Legal practice
- Regime change
- Regime shift
- Regime theory
- River regime
Notes
Specific references:
- ^ Regime as defined in the Merriam–Webster website
- ^ Regime as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary
- ^ Fermi gases approach superfluid regime
- ^ A. R. Kolovsky, Steady-state regime for the rotational dynamics of a molecule at the condition of quantum chaos, Phys. Rev. A 48 (1993) 3072
- ^ M. Lenzner et al., Femtosecond Optical Breakdown in Dielectrics, PRL 80 (1998) 4076
General references:
Essentials of Comparative Government, Patrick O'Neil.
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Regime
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
Português (Portuguese)
n. - regime (m), forma de governo (f)
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
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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