REGIE

add. ·noun direct management of public finance or public works by agents of the government for government account;

— opposed to the contract system.

2. regie ·add. ·noun any kind of government monopoly (tobacco, salt, ·etc.) used chiefly as a means of taxation. such monopolies are largely employed in austria, italy, france, and spain.

3. regie ·add. ·noun the system of collecting taxes by officials who have either no interest or a very small interest in the proceeds, as distinguished from the ancient system of farming them out.