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Regent vs Regime - What's the difference?

regent | regime |

As a noun regent

is regent.

As a verb regime is

.

regent

English

(wikipedia regent)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled.
  • *1999 , (Philipp Blom), translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City , Vintage 2001, p. 139:
  • *:This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ruling; governing; regnant.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • Some other active regent principle which we call the soul.
  • Exercising vicarious authority.
  • (Milton)

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    regime

    English

    (wikipedia regime)

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Mode of rule or management.
  • A form of government, or the government in power (as in a socialist regime).
  • A period of rule.
  • A regulated system; a regimen.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime . It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].}}
  • (hydrology) A set of characteristics.
  • Usage notes

    * This word is often used as a pejorative.

    Derived terms

    * exercise regime * political regime * regime change

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