regime

Etymology

Borrowed from French régime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.

noun

1. Mode of rule or management.
   a prison regime
2. A form of government, or the government in power.
   a totalitarian regime
   Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
3. A period of rule.
4. A regulated system; a regimen.
   a fitness regime
   It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […]. 2013-06-07, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
   Gorsuch’s theory would hobble this nondiscrimination regime by preventing the government from directing employers to tell employees about their rights and responsibilities under law. 2017, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Cake Is Just the Beginning”, in Slate
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.