regulation
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
law
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From regulate + -ion.
Base: regulate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: regulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
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.
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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
singular
examples: 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.
(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.
gloss: A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
pos: noun
tags: European-Union
countable
uncountable
gloss: Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt.
"The hat is regulation as well, I assume."
It is the responsibility of every legionare to be sure that he is regulation height as well.
Sorry, Zooble, it's just the perfect regulation softball size! We're not playing baseball here!
Related words: bylaw
coregulation
deregulation
immunoregulation
order
order-in-council
regulate
regulator
rule
ruler
Derived words: antiregulation
autoregulation
baroregulation
bioregulation
chemoregulation
cisregulation
COLREGS
counterregulation
down-regulation
downregulation
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
underregulation
up-regulation
upregulation
vasoregulation
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