regulation

Definitions

1. The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
   uncountable
2. adjustment
3. A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
   countable
4. 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.
   countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
5. A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
   countable, in-plural, often, singular
6. A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
   European-Union, countable, uncountable
7. Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
   countable, uncountable
8. Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

“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.”

CEFR level