regimentation
Americannoun
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the act of regimenting or the state of being regimented.
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the strict discipline and enforced uniformity characteristic of military groups or totalitarian systems.
Other Word Forms
- overregimentation noun
Etymology
Origin of regimentation
Example Sentences
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Planters operated the nation’s first “big businesses,” managing large labor forces through factory-like regimentation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
But they were an essential step in the ultimate divorce of viewing habits from broadcast TV’s no-choice time-and-place regimentation.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025
The training hours are a new requirement for master cosmetic tattoo artists, those who practice advanced techniques such as permanent eye shadow and breast and scar regimentation.
From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2023
His time at the front, as she tells it, was brief and uneventful: The war was ugly and futile; Army regimentation was a horror in itself.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2020
The physical conditions were overlaid with military regimentation far beyond anything imposed at the Rad Lab, even after its absorption into the bomb project.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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