regime

IPA: rʌʒˈim

Mode of rule or management.
A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
A period of rule.
A regulated system; a regimen.
A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
(hydrology) A set of characteristics.

Examples of "regime" in Sentences

I'm happy that he's using the term regime for øbama.
Also, the label regime could facilitate competition — calorie competition among chains!
But where would it drive them to, if all other similar chains are also subject to the label regime?
Clinton signed the ILA only because he felt it would be politically damaging not to, and throughout his term regime change in Iraq constituted a hope rather than a serious objective.
From Japan, L. Douglass Garrett, who writes the Competing Hypotheses blog, says a new constitution could serve Fiji well, but questions whether the Bainimarama regime is the right team to create that document.
His address appeared to only heighten the gulf between Mr. Mubarak and the tens of thousands of protesters who took part in Friday's planned "Day of Wrath" against what they characterized as the regime's oppression, stagnation and lack of opportunity.
At one point, the ex-spin doctor claimed audaciously: "If [the UN weapons inspector] Hans Blix had been able to say, 'He [Saddam Hussein] has got rid of the lot,' that would have been regime change - in that it would have been a different sort of regime."
Rajanews affiliated with Khamenei's band added: "recently Monafeghin (the term regime uses to call PMOI) have sent a part of their message by (Short Message Service) SMS to their followers and other citizens demanding them to turn the Feast of Fire into a Blazing Uprising".