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A government that calls itself stable while everyone else calls it a warning.
means A system or government in power, especially an authoritarian one, but also any settled order of rules or routines that governs how something runs.
from From French régime, itself from Latin regimen, 'a rule, guidance, government,' built on regere, 'to direct, to rule' — the same root that gives us regent, regular, and regal. So at its heart it simply means 'the way things are run.' English borrowed it in the regimen sense first (think of a dietary regimen), and the political flavor — usually faintly disapproving — firmed up later, especially around talk of France's ancien régime, the 'old order' swept away by revolution.
- word origin
- From Latin regimen, meaning guidance or rule
- diet too
- A skincare regime governs your face daily
- shelf life
- Average authoritarian regime lasts under 25 years
- the tell
- Calling it a regime means you dislike it
- old regime
- Pre-revolution France was the ancien régime
nazi germany — adolf hitler's totalitarian state that ruled 1933-1945 and systematically murdered 6 million jews
soviet union — communist state under stalin that killed an estimated 20 million people through purges and forced labor camps
khmer rouge cambodia — pol pot's regime that killed approximately 2 million cambodians between 1975-1979
apartheid south africa — white minority government enforcing racial segregation laws from 1948-1994