regulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: regulations
Etymology: From regulate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
examples: text: Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
text: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
ref: 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
text: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
ref: 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
glosses: A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
topics: law
coordinate_terms: statute
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
text: (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales only, subject to paragraph (3).
(3) This regulation and regulation 2(h) and (v)(i) and (ii) extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
ref: 2023, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, “Regulation 1(2)-(3)”, in Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023 (Commencement No. 1 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2023, page 1:
topics: law
coordinate_terms: statute
glosses: 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.
A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
topics: law
glosses: A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
Derived terms: antiregulation
autoregulation
baroregulation
bioregulation
chemoregulation
cisregulation
COLREGS
counterregulation
downregulation
down-regulation
dysregulation
epiregulation
glucoregulation
glycoregulation
hemoregulation
hydroregulation
hyperregulation
hyporegulation
interregulation
liporegulation
macroregulation
mechanoregulation
metalloregulation
midnight regulation
misregulation
morphoregulation
myoregulation
neuroimmune regulation
neuroregulation
nonregulation
osmoregulation
overregulation
oxyregulation
phosphoregulation
photoregulation
physioregulation
postregulation
preregulation
regulational
regulationist
regulation time
regulome
retroregulation
riboregulation
self-regulation
subregulation
teleregulation
thermoregulation
thromboregulation
up-regulation
upregulation
vasoregulation
Related terms: bylaw
coregulation
deregulation
immunoregulation
order
order-in-council
regulate
regulator
rule
ruler