Mode of rule or management. / A form of government, or the government in power. / A period of rule. / A regulated system; a regimen. / A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.

plural of regime

(politics) The overthrow of a government that is considered an illegitimate regime by means of external force (especially military might), and its replacement with a new government according to the concept of political legitimacy promoted by that force.

(ecology) Any of various modes of widespread floral replacement, e.g., flood, fire, disease or wind.

plural of regime change

plural of disturbance regime

(politics) Synonym of puppet state

(politics) Synonym of puppet state

plural of epistemic regime

Any pattern or system (including any ideology, philosophy, religion, science, or tradition, as well as coexistent combinations thereof) by which people know or believe (or believe that they know) the things that they know or believe (including any ontologic or cosmologic facts, theories, hypotheses, catechistic items of faith, or other items of faith).