regulation
The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
Other meanings
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.”
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.
Related words
- underregulation
- down-regulation
- regulation time
- midnight regulation
- neuroimmune regulation
- self-regulation
- up-regulation
- thermoregulation
- dysregulation
- COLREGS
- antiregulation
- autoregulation
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This definition is adapted from “regulation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.