régien.

Brit.

/reɪˈʒiː/, U.S.

/reɪˈʒi/

Forms: 1700s– régie, 1700s– regie. Also with capital initial.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French régie.

Etymology: < French régie government department that controls an industry or service (second half of the 18th cent. or earlier in this sense), use as noun of past participle of régir to rule, govern (1234 in Old French) < classical Latin regere to rule, govern (see regent adj.).

In France and certain other European countries: a government department that controls an industry or service; spec. one with complete control of the importation, manufacture, and taxation of tobacco, salt, and other resources (now historical). Also: a government monopoly used as a means of taxation; esp. the tobacco monopoly in the former Turkish Empire (now historical).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > state agency or quango > in France

régie1788

1788 B. H. Latrobe Characteristic Anecd. & Misc. Papers Char. Frederic II Pref. p. xvii An army of excise officers, known in that country by the detested name of the Regie, who overrun the country like a swarm of locusts, and harrassed the traveller intolerably.

1790 W. Short Let. 27 Aug. in T. Jefferson Papers (1965) XVII. 439 Foreign tobacco [in France]..is to be subjected to a regie—viz. the nation is to be the sole purchaser and manufacturer of it.

1845 Amer. Whig Rev. Dec. 651 (table) The retailing of tobacco is made by persons authorized by the régie.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 May 5/1 The Turkish tobacco régie..is designed to include a company having the exclusive right of preparing tobacco for home consumption and of selling it to the public.

1890 Athenæum 11 Oct. 474/3 All the frequenters of a country inn [in France]..consume the tobacco of the régie.

1923 Glasgow Herald 26 Feb. 10 The exploitation of the railways of the Ruhr and the Rhineland by a Franco-Belgian ‘regie’ is believed to have been decided.

1958 G. T. Matthews Royal Gen. Farms 18th Cent. France i. ii. 43 Prior to 1548 the various salt taxes and commercial concessions constituting the grandes gabelles were partly farmed to individual tax-farmers and partly managed by government régies.

2001 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 6 Mar. a1 Abella, through his company Peregrini, was also the official agent for the Lebanese tobacco monopoly, The Regie.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	régie
释义	régien. Brit. /reɪˈʒiː/, U.S. /reɪˈʒi/ Forms: 1700s– régie, 1700s– regie. Also with capital initial. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French régie. Etymology: < French régie government department that controls an industry or service (second half of the 18th cent. or earlier in this sense), use as noun of past participle of régir to rule, govern (1234 in Old French) < classical Latin regere to rule, govern (see regent adj.). In France and certain other European countries: a government department that controls an industry or service; spec. one with complete control of the importation, manufacture, and taxation of tobacco, salt, and other resources (now historical). Also: a government monopoly used as a means of taxation; esp. the tobacco monopoly in the former Turkish Empire (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > state agency or quango > in France régie1788 1788 B. H. Latrobe Characteristic Anecd. & Misc. Papers Char. Frederic II Pref. p. xvii An army of excise officers, known in that country by the detested name of the Regie, who overrun the country like a swarm of locusts, and harrassed the traveller intolerably. 1790 W. Short Let. 27 Aug. in T. Jefferson Papers (1965) XVII. 439 Foreign tobacco [in France]..is to be subjected to a regie—viz. the nation is to be the sole purchaser and manufacturer of it. 1845 Amer. Whig Rev. Dec. 651 (table) The retailing of tobacco is made by persons authorized by the régie. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 May 5/1 The Turkish tobacco régie..is designed to include a company having the exclusive right of preparing tobacco for home consumption and of selling it to the public. 1890 Athenæum 11 Oct. 474/3 All the frequenters of a country inn [in France]..consume the tobacco of the régie. 1923 Glasgow Herald 26 Feb. 10 The exploitation of the railways of the Ruhr and the Rhineland by a Franco-Belgian ‘regie’ is believed to have been decided. 1958 G. T. Matthews Royal Gen. Farms 18th Cent. France i. ii. 43 Prior to 1548 the various salt taxes and commercial concessions constituting the grandes gabelles were partly farmed to individual tax-farmers and partly managed by government régies. 2001 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 6 Mar. a1 Abella, through his company Peregrini, was also the official agent for the Lebanese tobacco monopoly, The Regie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1788
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