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語源

From 中期英語 regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.

発音

• IPA: /ɹəˈʒiːm/, /ɹeɪˈʒiːm/, /ˈɹeɪʒiːm/
• 韻: -iːm

名詞

regime (plural regimes)

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

   • 1988 December 11, Cheryl Clarke, “Still Shouting Down The Silence”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 7:

     For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.

   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     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 […].

   • 2017, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Cake Is Just the Beginning”, in Slate:

     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.

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.

使用する際の注意点

• When regime is used in the sense of a form or instance of government or state, it is usually meant as a pejorative, and may be intended to brand that government or state as illegitimate or authoritarian. Some usage commentators prescribe that when regime is used in the sense of "a regulated system; a regimen," such as for health or fitness regimens, the word regimen should be used instead. But Garner's Modern English Usage, fourth edition, says that the word regime predominates in that sense in British English and that the word regimen predominates in that sense in American English; this difference suggests that that prescription has been taken up more in America than in Britain.

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Further reading

• “regime”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “regime”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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