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regulation en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/

Etymology

From regulate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.
   • It is the responsibility of every legionare to be sure that he is regulation height as well. 2007, Jim Butcher, Captain's Fury, page 48:
   • Sorry, Zooble, it's just the perfect regulation softball size! We're not playing baseball here! 2025 June 20, Gooseworx, “Untitled” (19:50 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 5, spoken by Kinger (Sean Chiplock):
   • It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt. 1969, Thomas Wiseman, The Quick and the Dead, page 328:
   • "The hat is regulation as well, I assume." 2004, Marc Miller, The Kettles and the Keeps: Ghosts at War, page 88:

Relateds

regulatory

regulation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/

Etymology

From regulate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
2. (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
   • 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. 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
   • 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. 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
   • Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
3. (countable, in-plural, often, uncountable) 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.
4. (countable, in-plural, often, singular) 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.
   • (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. 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:
   • 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. (European-Union, countable, uncountable) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
6. (countable, uncountable) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
7. (countable, uncountable) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.

Forms

Coordinates

statute · statute

Deriveds

glucoregulation · misregulation · hemoregulation · vasoregulation · hydroregulation · photoregulation · liporegulation · preregulation · underregulation · regulational · riboregulation · retroregulation · morphoregulation · hyporegulation · interregulation · regulation time · baroregulation · macroregulation · regulome · self-regulation · subregulation · thermoregulation · neuroregulation · antiregulation · phosphoregulation · nonregulation · down-regulation · oxyregulation · bioregulation · physioregulation · chemoregulation · thromboregulation · glycoregulation · COLREGS · dysregulation · teleregulation · downregulation · osmoregulation · neuroimmune regulation · metalloregulation · postregulation · overregulation · midnight regulation · counterregulation · regulationist · myoregulation · up-regulation · hyperregulation · mechanoregulation · cisregulation · upregulation · autoregulation · epiregulation

Relateds

regulate · bylaw · order-in-council · regulator · order · coregulation · rule · deregulation · immunoregulation · ruler

Translations (117)

is reglugerð (law or administrative rule) · hu szabályozás (act or condition) · pl przepis (law or administrative rule) · ru предписа́ние (law or administrative rule) · nl verordening (law or administrative rule) · ro reglementare (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · ru уста́в (law or administrative rule) · es regulación (mechanism controlling DNA transcription) · hu szabály (law or administrative rule) · ro regulă (act or condition) · nl verordening (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · id peraturan (law or administrative rule) · it regolazione (physiological process maintaining homœostasis) · fi ohjesääntö (law or administrative rule) · sk nariadenie (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · hu előírás (law or administrative rule) · ka მართვა (law or administrative rule) · kmr rêkxistin (physiological process maintaining homœostasis) · de Bestimmung (law or administrative rule) · ang metegung (act or condition) · bg регламент (law or administrative rule) · pt regulação (physiological process maintaining homœostasis) · mi rekureihana (law or administrative rule) · ro reglementare (law or administrative rule) · pt regulação (mechanism controlling DNA transcription) · el ρύθμιση (act or condition) · lt reglamentas (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · hu irányítás (act or condition) · yue 規例 /规例 (law or administrative rule) · ar تَنْظِيم (law or administrative rule) · mt regolament (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · de Regulativ (law or administrative rule) · el κανονισμός (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · fr règlement (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · es reglamento (law or administrative rule) · fi sääntely (act or condition) · sa विधान (law or administrative rule) · hu rendelkezés (law or administrative rule) · sv reglering (law or administrative rule) · nv bee hazʼáanii (law or administrative rule) · hu beszabályozás (act or condition) · ro reglare (act or condition) · fi järjestyssääntö (law or administrative rule) · it regolamento (law or administrative rule) · hu szabályzat (law or administrative rule) · hu szabvány (law or administrative rule) · lv regula (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · de Regeln (act or condition) · ka რეგულაცია (law or administrative rule) · sa विधान (act or condition) · ka დირექტივა (law or administrative rule) · hy կանոնակարգ (law or administrative rule) · tr düzenleme (law or administrative rule) · bg регла́мент (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · ka მოწესრიგება (law or administrative rule) · sh uredba (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · la praescriptum (law or administrative rule) · ka რეგულაცია (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · tl alituntunin (law or administrative rule) · bg регулация (act or condition) · bg правило (law or administrative rule) · ka წესი (law or administrative rule) · ja 規則 (law or administrative rule) · de Verordnung (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · it regolamento (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · ka რეგლამენტაცია (law or administrative rule) · it regolazione (mechanism controlling DNA transcription) · ja 規制 (act or condition) · ga rialachán (law or administrative rule) · el κανονισμός (law or administrative rule) · fr régulation (physiological process maintaining homœostasis) · hu vezérlés (act or condition) · ko 규칙 (law or administrative rule) · hy կանոնակարգ (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · it regola (act or condition) · pl regulacja (act or condition) · ro regulament (law or administrative rule) · hi विनियम (law or administrative rule) · cmn 規例 /规例 (law or administrative rule) · tl alituntunin (act or condition) · cs nařízení (law or administrative rule) · fr régulation (mechanism controlling DNA transcription) · hu beállítás (act or condition) · hu rendszabály (law or administrative rule) · no regulering (law or administrative rule) · fi asetus (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · hu rendelet (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · cs nařízení (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · sv förordning (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · vi chế độ (law or administrative rule) · tr regülasyon (act or condition) · hu szabályozás (law or administrative rule) · hu beigazítás (act or condition) · ru регла́мент (law or administrative rule) · ang metegung (law or administrative rule) · da forordning (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · hy կարգավորում (law or administrative rule) · pl rozporządzenie (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · et määrus (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · de Regelung (law or administrative rule) · pt regulamento (law or administrative rule) · et määrus (law or administrative rule) · id regulasi (law or administrative rule) · fr règlement (law or administrative rule) · fr réglementation (law or administrative rule) · ga riail (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · bg предписание (law or administrative rule) · ru пра́вило (law or administrative rule) · cmn 規則 /规则 (law or administrative rule) · pt regulamento (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · ro regulament (EU: self-effecting legislative act) · nl reglement (law or administrative rule) · eo regulo (law or administrative rule) · ka ნორმა (law or administrative rule) · fi sääntö (law or administrative rule) · es regulación (physiological process maintaining homœostasis) · uk регулювання (act or condition)