regulation

Plural: regulations

Noun

• an authoritative rule
• a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior
  • "short haircuts were the regulation"
• the state of being controlled or governed
• (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered
• the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular
• the act of controlling or directing according to rule
  • "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians"
• The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated.
• A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
• 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 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.
• A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law.
• Mechanism controlling DNA transcription.
• Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis.

Adjective Satellite

• prescribed by or according to regulation
  • "regulation army equipment"

Adj

• In conformity with applicable rules and regulations.

Examples

• Army regulations state a soldier AWOL over 30 days is a deserter.
• 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.

Synonyms

ordinance, regularisation, regularization, regulating, rule

Related Words

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

Anagrams of regulation