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regulation

Academic Word List, sublist 2.

About 29.95 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
  2. noun A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
    Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
  3. noun A type of law made by the executive branch of a government, usually as authorized by a statute made by the legislative branch giving the executive the authority to do so.
    Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 (S.R. & O. 1939/927) authorized the British government to intern suspected spies and collaborators during World War II.
  4. noun A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
    Regulation 18B of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 (S.R. & O. 1939/927) authorized the British government to intern suspected spies and collaborators during World War II.
  5. noun A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
  6. noun Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
  7. noun Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
  8. adjective In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.

Similar words

rule ordinance standard regulating statute law administering rulemaking regulatory bylaw

Often followed by

of and in is by was or to that

Word family

regulate regulated regulates regulating regulation time regulations regulator regulators regulatory

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