regimen

A regular plan of treatment, exercise, or eating intended to improve your health.

• She follows a daily exercise regimen.
• The doctor changed his treatment regimen.
• This skin care regimen takes only ten minutes.

How to use it: a regimen of something (He began a regimen of daily walks and gentle exercise.)

Similar words: routine, program

Common phrases: exercise regimen, treatment regimen, strict regimen

An organized system for governing people or managing their affairs.

• The kingdom adopted a new regimen.
• The historian described the city’s political regimen.
• A strict regimen governed every aspect of public life.

Similar words: government, administration

Common phrases: political regimen, regimen of government, strict regimen

A word or phrase naming what a verb or preposition acts on or relates to.

• The noun serves as the regimen of the verb.
• This grammar calls the object a regimen.
• Identify the regimen of the preposition in this sentence.

Similar words: object

Common phrases: regimen of something, verbal regimen, prepositional regimen

A relationship in which one word determines another word’s grammatical form.

• The preposition’s regimen requires a particular case.
• This chapter discusses grammatical regimen.
• The verb determines the regimen of the dependent noun.

Similar words: government

Common phrases: grammatical regimen, regimen of something, verbal regimen