Synonyms of regime

regime

noun

rā-ˈzhēm 

variants also régime

as in government

lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation)

the regime of the dictator collapsed with surprising abruptness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• government
• rule
• administration
• governance
• reign
• regimen
• dictatorship
• jurisdiction
• power
• sovereignty
• authority
• leadership
• tyranny
• management
• domination
• oppression
• regulation
• dominion
• supervision
• supremacy
• direction
• command
• sway
• autocracy
• hegemony
• mastery
• subjugation
• superintendence

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of regime

Israel’s far-right Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has argued that destroying Iran’s economy offers the most effective route towards overthrowing the regime. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

The defendants arrived at dawn, just before the morning prayer call, the time when the regime's laws mandate execution sentences be carried out. — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026

Across the 450-year window his team analyzed, eastern equatorial Africa was already sliding from a warmer, wetter regime into a cooler, drier one, tracking a natural cooling trend recorded in Greenland ice. — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 9 Aug. 2026

In 1960, Pilar, a librarian, has lost her husband to the Castro regime, and is entrusted with the book that Eva wrote many decades earlier. — The Know, Denver Post, 9 Aug. 2026