Regiment can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| regiment - assign to a regiment; "regiment soldiers" | ||
| regiment - subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization; "regiment one's children" | ||
| regiment - form (military personnel) into a regiment | ||
Noun |
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| regiment - army unit smaller than a division |
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| 1. | verb | Regiment soldiers. | |
| 2. | verb | Regiment one's children. | |
| 3. | verb | It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. | |
| 4. | noun | The belle of the regiment, ay, and the finest girl that ever had the breath of life between her lips, was Nancy Devoy, the daughter of the colour-sergeant. |
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| Regiment soldiers. |
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| Regiment one's children. |
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| It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. In its service new mercenaries sought to regiment the people, their labor, and their property. | |
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| The belle of the regiment, ay, and the finest girl that ever had the breath of life between her lips, was Nancy Devoy, the daughter of the colour-sergeant. | |