Regent

:For the insecticide 'Regent', see Regent (insecticide)

Other uses

Occasionally, the term regent refers to positions lower than the ruler of a country.

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• In the Dutch republic of the United Provinces, the members of the ruling class, not formally hereditary but de facto patricians, were known collectively as regenten (the Dutch plural for regent)
• In the Dutch Indies, a regent was a native prince allowed to rule de facto colonized 'state' as a regentschap (see that term)
• Hence, in the succeeding republic Indonesia, the term regent is used in English to mean a bupati or local government official.
• Also used in private spheres, for instance, some university managers in North America are called regents, or the members of certain governing bodies of lofty institutions, such as the national banks, in France and (imitating) Belgium.
• Again in Belgium and France, but far lower on the social ladder, (Régént in French; or in Dutch) Regent is the official title of a secondary school teacher of the lower years (equivalent to junior high school), who does not require a college degree but is trained solely for education in a specialized écôle normale = normaalschool.