regime

Type: noun

Definitions: (noun) A regime is a plan or system. (noun) A regime is a government, especially a bad or illegal one.

Examples: (noun) Under the government’s new tax regime, families will be worse off. (noun) Jews were treated terribly under the Nazi regime. (noun) The UN helped end the rule of the military and establish a new regime in the war torn country.

Synonyms: nouns: government, establishment. system, plan, structure.

Academic Word List Sublist and Group: 4 A