Definition of "regime" in Englisch

noun

1. Mode of rule or management.

   • a prison regime

2. A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.

   • the dictator's regime
   • Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.

3. A period of rule.

4. A regulated system; a regimen.

   • a fitness regime

5. A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.

6. (hydrology) A set of characteristics.

   • A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.