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/rəʒˈim/ /reɪʒˈim/ Listen

noun

Regime n.

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system. "I dream... of the new régime which is to come."

(Hydraul.) The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform régime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.

The ancient regime, or Ancien regime, the former political and social system, as distinguished from the modern; especially, the political and social system existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.

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Etymology of 'Regime'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Regime" Quotes from Famous Books

... an injured family. The girl had lived with her ancient father, whom she had half-supported and who would, possibly, be transplanted to Hilltop's cave for such pottering life as he was still capable of during the rest of his existence. The new regime was ...

— The Story of Ab - A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man • Stanley Waterloo

... 1000 came in eight years. When married, they received each "an ox, a cow, a pair of swine, a pair of fowls, two barrels of salted meat, and eleven crowns in money." Read Parkman's Old Regime in ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... about them the more I felt attracted towards the Sakais, it seeming to me that a people so foreign to every light of civilization, so bold as they were described to be, so free from every regime or authority, must needs afford an interesting study to one who sought to know them at close quarters. Perhaps, when once I had overcome the, not always surmountable, difficulty of getting into their company, I might find amongst them a tranquil life and settle ...

— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti

... told by Socialists that the present regime of individual initiative and private capital tends to make men selfish and unbrotherly, while the tendency of Socialism would be to make men unselfish and fraternal. If the church were sure that this is the truth, she would ...

— The Church and Modern Life • Washington Gladden

... their ranks, the Republicans ceased to be a strictly homogeneous party. Incipient schism appeared by 1812, at once announced and widened by the creation of the protective system and the new United States Bank in 1816, and the attempted launching of an internal improvements regime in 1821, all three the plain marks of federalist survival, however men might shun that name. Republicans like Clay, Calhoun in his early years, and Quincy Adams, while somewhat more obsequious to the people, as to political theory ...

— History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

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