regulate
To dictate policy.
Other meanings
To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
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”
Related words
- myoregulin
- coregulating
- immunoregulating
- nonregulating
- self-regulating
- deregulate
- downregulate
- self-regulate
- autoregulate
- coregulate
- counterregulate
- crossregulate
Word history
From Latin "regulatus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “regulate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.