regulate

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 7.42 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To dictate policy.
2. verb To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
3. verb To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.

   to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time

4. verb To put or maintain in order.

   to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances

Similar words

govern regularize order modulate shape influence determine baffle rule regulation

Often followed by

the their and commerce its his our it all

Word family

regulated regulates regulating regulation regulations regulative regulator regulators regulatory