DCHP-2

Regie Régie, regie DCHP-2 (August 2016)

• n. — Quebec, Administration

  a government body regulating certain domains in Quebec, e.g. alcohol, housing, language use, insurances and the like.

  Type: 1. Origin — This French term is used in Canadian English via imposed lexical transfer (Boberg 2012: 501). Since French is the only official language in Quebec, English speakers often adopt the French terms because of the lack of an official or clear and universal English version (see, e.g. the 2012 quotation). As Chart 1 shows, frequency-wise this term is, to no surpirse, a Quebecism as well.
  COD-2 (s.v. "regie") marks the term "Cdn ( Que. )".

  See also: liquor store  francophone  liquor board