underregulated en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi ? Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English regulated English underregulated From under- + regulated.
Meanings
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Insufficiently regulated.
“This is a harsh but probably necessary strategy to re-establish control over an underregulated sector,” David Zweig[…] said of the death-sentence verdict.
2007 July 7, David Barboza, “China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more underregulated | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most underregulated | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |