Regime
[reɪ'ʒiːm] or [re'ʒim]
Definition
(n.) Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.
(n.) 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 regime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections.
Typed by Emile
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Government, administration, rule, political system, form of government.
Inputed by Ethel
Examples
- Under the old regime all workers in a craft were approximately equals in their knowledge and outlook. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Not the teaching as such but the reinforcement of it by the whole regime of which it was an incident made it effective. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Certain it is that under this simple regime studious habits were formed and a taste for literature developed that have lasted to this day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This course was pursued until the Menlo Park period, when he instituted a new regime that has been continued down to the present day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Under the old regime it required sixty priests to engineer it--the Government does it with five, now, and the others are discharged from service. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Rachel