regards

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
regard/rɪˈɡɑːd/

▶verb

• 1 consider in a particular way.

• 2 gaze at in a specified fashion.

• 3 archaic pay attention to.

▶noun

• 1 attention or concern: she rescued him without regard for herself.

• 2 high opinion; esteem.

  ■ (regards) best wishes.

• 3 a steady look.

– phrases
as regards concerning.
in this (or that) regard in connection with the point previously mentioned.
with (or in or having) regard to as concerns.

– derivatives
regardable adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr. regarder ‘to watch’, from re- (expressing intensive force) + garder (see guard).