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)

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 examples:

the government reduced taxes / the matter was referred to higher authorities

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

polity (a politically organized unit)

Meronyms (parts of "regime"):

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

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)

Meronyms (members of "regime"):

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

government department (a department of government)

executive (persons who administer the law)

bench; judiciary (persons who administer justice)

division (an administrative unit in government or business)

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

Domain category:

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

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

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

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

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)

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

palace (the governing group of a kingdom)

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

local government (the government of a local area)

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)

federal government (a government with strong central powers)

empire (a group of countries under a single authority)

Downing Street (the British government)

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

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

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

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

regimen; regime

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)