regimenoun [ C ]
uk/reɪˈʒiːm/us/reɪˈʒiːm/regime noun [ C ] (MANAGEMENT)
C2 mainly disapproving a particular government or a system or method of government:
The old corrupt, totalitarian regime was overthrown.
a particular way of operating or organizing a business, etc.:
The regime in this office is hard work and more hard work.
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- The regime tried to silence dissent with a programme of mass murder.
- He urged governments worldwide to break diplomatic ties with the new regime.
- The government was accused of covert military operations against the regime.
- The once docile population has finally risen up against the ruthless regime.
- The drafting of a new constitution cannot be a monopoly of the white minority regime .
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- anti-federalist
- apartheid
- Dem
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- imperialism
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- patriarchy
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- reign
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Ways of achieving things
regime noun [ C ] (RULES)
a regimen
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Ways of achieving things
- a means to an end idiom
- actively
- another
- avenue
- basis
- channel
- fair
- jump
- mean
- medium
- mixed media
- modality
- modus operandi
- one way or another idiom
- one-handed
- resort
- shortcut
- vein
- whereby
- workings
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