Thesaurus: regime

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1. n. Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.
2. 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.
3. n. the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
4. n. (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
5. 1. Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system. I dream . . . of the new régime which is to come. H. Kingsley. 2. (Hydraul.) 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 régime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections. The ancient régime, or Ancien régime Etym: [F.], the former political and social system, as distinguished from the modern; especially, the political and social system existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.
6. The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow,as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sectionsin a given time, uniform régime being the condition when the flow isequal and uniform at all the cross sections. The ancient régime, orAncien régime Etym: [F.], the former political and social system, asdistinguished from the modern; especially, the political and socialsystem existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.
7. n:100 n the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit n (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)