REGIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regime mean? 

• REGIME (noun)
  The noun REGIME has 2 senses:

1. the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

2. (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)

  Familiarity information: REGIME used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

authorities; government; regime

Context example:

the matter was referred to higher authorities

Hypernyms ("regime" is a kind of...):

polity (a politically organized unit)

Meronyms (parts of "regime"):

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

judicatory; judicature; judicial system; judiciary (the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government)

Meronyms (members of "regime"):

government officials; officialdom (people elected or appointed to administer a government)

division (an administrative unit in government or business)

bench; judiciary (persons who administer justice)

executive (persons who administer the law)

general assembly; law-makers; legislative assembly; legislative body; legislature (persons who make or amend or repeal laws)

government department (a department of government)

Domain category:

administration; governance; governing; government; government activity (the act of governing; exercising authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "regime"):

authoritarian regime; authoritarian state (a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people)

bureaucracy (a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials)

ancien regime (a political and social system that no longer governs (especially the system that existed in France before the French Revolution))

court; royal court (the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state)

Downing Street (the British government)

empire (a group of countries under a single authority)

federal government (a government with strong central powers)

government-in-exile (a temporary government moved to or formed in a foreign land by exiles who hope to rule when their country is liberated)

local government (the government of a local area)

military government; stratocracy (government by the military and an army)

palace (the governing group of a kingdom)

papacy; pontificate (the government of the Roman Catholic Church)

pupet regime; puppet government; puppet state (a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed)

state (the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state)

state government (the government of a state in the United States)

totalitarian state; totalitation regime (a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

regime; regimen

Hypernyms ("regime" is a kind of...):

plan; program; programme (a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

 Context examples 

The data they analyzed from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) between 2000-2018 indicates a possible regime shift in Sargassum blooms since 2011.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)

Dams also change the regime of flow in rivers downstream, and they trap sediments that carry nutrients, starving fish and other species.

(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)

All of them were also given an exercise regime and diet plan.

(Supplements of 'Good Bacteria' Can Enhance Weight Loss in Dieters, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Wildfires swept the landscape during arid regimes and reshaped the vegetation available for plant-eating animals.

(Big dinosaurs steered clear of the tropics, NSF)

"This is an intriguing regime."

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

Water’s constituent atoms of hydrogen and oxygen are able to absorb some of this energy and re-emit it at specific wavelengths, one of which falls within the microwave regime, invisible to Hubble but detectable by microwave telescopes.

(Hubble's Megamaser Galaxy, ESA/NASA)

Since synovial fluid is regularly collected from arthritic patients as part of their treatment regime, our technique can be easily set up in laboratories throughout the world to understand and help to identify a cure for arthritic pain.

(Joint lubricating fluid plays key role in osteoarthritic pain, University of Cambridge)

Climate change affects the hydrological regime in the Amazon, which affects fish reproduction and production of stocks in the floodplains.

(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)