word-vault/dist/data/cards/re/regime.json

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{
    "term": "regime",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a method or system of government, especially one that has not been elected in a fair way",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **fascist/totalitarian/military, etc. regime**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **oppressive/brutal regime**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "An interim government was elected to replace the ousted regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Crowds celebrated the downfall of the old regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Education was seen as a way of bolstering the existing regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He spoke of the abhorrent crimes that had been committed under the regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In 1940 a puppet regime was established by the invaders."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She called for sanctions against the regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The communist regime came to power in 1975."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tyrannical regime violently repressed any opposition."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These regimes pose a grave and growing danger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a harsh and unrelenting theocratic regime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a military regime headed by the general"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a military regime under Franco"
                },
                {
                    "text": "collaboration with the secular Egyptian regime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "dictatorships and autocratic regimes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the day he and his regime are removed from power"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the real war aim of regime change"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the threat posed by rogue regimes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He described the government as one of the most brutal and repressive regimes in the world today."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was imprisoned because of her opposition to the regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are investigating human rights abuses under the previous military regime."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Politics"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["new", "old", "current"],
                "verb + regime": ["establish", "install", "set up"],
                "regime + verb": ["exist", "come to power", "emerge"],
                "regime + noun": ["change"],
                "preposition": [
                    "against a/​the regime",
                    "under a/​the regime",
                    "regime under"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "a change of regime",
                    "the collapse of a regime",
                    "the fall of a regime"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a method or system of organizing or managing something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Our tax regime is one of the most favourable in Europe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It will be necessary to create a regime to monitor compliance with the agreements."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Under the new regime you will be liable for automatic penalties for late submission of tax returns."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a challenge to the global nuclear non-proliferation regime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a financial regime imposed by the government"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the UN-enforced sanctions regime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the company's outstanding safety regime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the new regime for accounting for charities"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["harsh", "rigorous", "strict"],
                "verb + regime": ["create", "set up", "start"],
                "regime + verb": ["be based on something"],
                "preposition": ["under a/​the regime", "regime for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a set of rules about food and exercise or medical treatment that you follow in order to stay healthy or to improve your health",
            "labels": "(medical or formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a dietary regime"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm going swimming every day as part of my new fitness regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children were subjected to a strict regime of meals, walks and lessons."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He suggested to me that I follow his fitness regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a regime based on discipline and training"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/reɪˈʒiːm/",
                "audio": "re/regime/regime__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/reɪˈʒiːm/",
                "audio": "re/regime/regime__us_2_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘regimen’): French régime, from Latin regimen ‘rule’, from regere ‘to rule’. Sense 1 dates from the late 18th cent. (with original reference to the Ancien Régime)."
}