"regulation" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, /ˌɹɛɡjəˈleɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-regulation.wav [Southern-England]
Etymology: From regulate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|regulate|ion}} regulate + -ion Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} regulation (not comparable)
  1. In conformity with applicable rules and regulations. Tags: not-comparable Related terms: regulatory
    Sense id: en-regulation-en-adj-bzaexyv0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ion Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 6 7 14 14 7 15 16 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 4 5 22 22 8 12 11 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 25 6 7 13 13 12 11 13

Noun

IPA: /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, /ˌɹɛɡjəˈleɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-regulation.wav [Southern-England] Forms: regulations [plural]
Etymology: From regulate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|regulate|ion}} regulate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} regulation (countable and uncountable, plural regulations)
  1. (uncountable) The act of regulating or the condition of being regulated. Tags: uncountable Translations (act or condition): регулация (regulacija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), sääntely (Finnish), Regeln [neuter] (German), ρύθμιση (rýthmisi) [feminine] (Greek), szabályozás (Hungarian), irányítás (Hungarian), vezérlés (Hungarian), beállítás (Hungarian), beszabályozás (Hungarian), beigazítás (Hungarian), regola [feminine] (Italian), 規制 (kisei) (alt: きせい) (Japanese), metegung [feminine] (Old English), regulacja [feminine] (Polish), reglare [feminine] (Romanian), regulă [feminine] (Romanian), विधान (vidhāna) [neuter] (Sanskrit), alituntunin (Tagalog), regülasyon (Turkish), регулювання (rehuljuvannja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-regulation-en-noun-ItzEn6sF Disambiguation of 'act or condition': 41 7 6 12 25 5 5
  2. (countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization. Tags: countable Translations (law or administrative rule): تَنْظِيم (tanẓīm) [masculine] (Arabic), կանոնակարգ (kanonakarg) (Armenian), կարգավորում (kargavorum) (Armenian), правило (pravilo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), предписание (predpisanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), регламент (reglament) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 規例 (Chinese Cantonese), 规例 (kwai¹ lai⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 規則 (Chinese Mandarin), 规则 (guīzé) (Chinese Mandarin), 規例 (Chinese Mandarin), 规例 (guīlì) (Chinese Mandarin), nařízení [neuter] (Czech), reglement [neuter] (Dutch), verordening [feminine] (Dutch), määrus (Estonian), sääntö (Finnish), ohjesääntö (Finnish), järjestyssääntö (Finnish), règlement [masculine] (French), réglementation [feminine] (French), რეგულაცია (regulacia) (Georgian), დირექტივა (direkṭiva) (Georgian), წესი (c̣esi) (Georgian), ნორმა (norma) (Georgian), მართვა (martva) (Georgian), რეგლამენტაცია (reglamenṭacia) (Georgian), მოწესრიგება (moc̣esrigeba) (Georgian), Regelung [feminine] (German), Regulativ [neuter] (German), Bestimmung [feminine] (German), κανονισμός (kanonismós) [masculine] (Greek), विनियम (viniyam) [masculine] (Hindi), előírás (Hungarian), szabály (Hungarian), szabályozás (Hungarian), rendszabály (Hungarian), rendelkezés (Hungarian), szabvány (Hungarian), szabályzat (Hungarian), reglugerð [feminine] (Icelandic), regulasi (Indonesian), peraturan (english: government executive) (Indonesian), regolamento [masculine] (Italian), 規則 (kisóku) (alt: きそく) (Japanese), 규칙 (gyuchik) (Korean), praescriptum [neuter] (Latin), rekureihana (Maori), bee hazʼáanii (Navajo), regulering [common-gender] (Norwegian), metegung [feminine] (Old English), przepis [masculine] (Polish), regulamento [masculine] (Portuguese), reglementare [feminine] (Romanian), regulament [neuter] (Romanian), уста́в (ustáv) [masculine] (Russian), пра́вило (právilo) [neuter] (Russian), регла́мент (regláment) [masculine] (Russian), предписа́ние (predpisánije) [neuter] (Russian), विधान (vidhāna) [neuter] (Sanskrit), reglamento [masculine] (Spanish), reglering [common-gender] (Swedish), alituntunin (Tagalog), düzenleme (Turkish), chế độ (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-regulation-en-noun-NHj3-N8O Disambiguation of 'law or administrative rule': 3 55 10 10 11 5 6
  3. (law, often in the plural) 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. Tags: countable, in-plural, often, uncountable Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-regulation-en-noun-s6apSNIP Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 4 5 22 22 8 12 11 Topics: law
  4. (law, often in the plural) 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 the singular) A numbered provision within such kind of legislation.
    Tags: countable, in-plural, often, singular Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-regulation-en-noun-GgjfLAoY Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 4 5 22 22 8 12 11 Topics: law
  5. (European Union law) A form of legislative act which is self-effecting, and requires no further intervention by the Member States to become law. Tags: European-Union, countable, uncountable Translations (EU: self-effecting legislative act): կանոնակարգ (kanonakarg) (Armenian), регла́мент (regláment) [masculine] (Bulgarian), nařízení [neuter] (Czech), forordning [common-gender] (Danish), verordening (Dutch), määrus (Estonian), asetus (Finnish), règlement [masculine] (French), რეგულაცია (regulacia) (Georgian), Verordnung [feminine] (German), κανονισμός (kanonismós) [masculine] (Greek), rendelet (Hungarian), riail [feminine] (Irish), regolamento [masculine] (Italian), regula (Latvian), reglamentas (Lithuanian), regolament (Maltese), rozporządzenie (Polish), regulamento [masculine] (Portuguese), regulament (Romanian), reglementare [feminine] (Romanian), uredba (Serbo-Croatian), nariadenie (Slovak), förordning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-regulation-en-noun-nvEiE1KO Topics: law Disambiguation of 'EU: self-effecting legislative act': 6 5 12 12 51 7 5
  6. (genetics) Mechanism controlling DNA transcription. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Genetics, Directives Translations (mechanism controlling DNA transcription): régulation (French), regolazione (Italian), regulação (Portuguese), regulación (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-regulation-en-noun-oiy95mwE Disambiguation of Directives: 16 10 10 11 13 6 20 14 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 4 5 22 22 8 12 11 Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'mechanism controlling DNA transcription': 2 2 3 3 3 82 5
  7. (medicine) Physiological process which consists in maintaining homoeostasis. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine Translations (physiological process maintaining homœostasis): régulation (French), regolazione (Italian), rêkxistin (Northern Kurdish), regulação (Portuguese), regulación (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-regulation-en-noun-TKOJhBNY Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 4 5 22 22 8 12 11 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'physiological process maintaining homœostasis': 2 5 3 3 8 11 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: down-regulation, midnight regulation, neuroimmune regulation, self-regulation, thermoregulation, up-regulation Related terms: coregulation, deregulation, immunoregulation, regulate, regulator, rule, ruler

Inflected forms

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      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "id",
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      "code": "id",
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      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "word": "peraturan"
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "word": "rekureihana"
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      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "word": "bee hazʼáanii"
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      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "regulering"
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      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "metegung"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "przepis"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "regulamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "reglementare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "regulament"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ustáv",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "уста́в"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "právilo",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "пра́вило"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "regláment",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "регла́мент"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predpisánije",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "предписа́ние"
    },
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      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "vidhāna",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "विधान"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "reglamento"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "reglering"
    },
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "word": "alituntunin"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "word": "düzenleme"
    },
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "law or administrative rule",
      "word": "chế độ"
    },
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kanonakarg",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "կանոնակարգ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "regláment",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "регла́мент"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "nařízení"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "forordning"
    },
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "verordening"
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "määrus"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "asetus"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "règlement"
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "regulacia",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "რეგულაცია"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Verordnung"
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    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kanonismós",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "κανονισμός"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "rendelet"
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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "riail"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "regolamento"
    },
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      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "regula"
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      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "reglamentas"
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      "lang": "Maltese",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "regolament"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "rozporządzenie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "regulamento"
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      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "regulament"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
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      "word": "reglementare"
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      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
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      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
      "word": "nariadenie"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "EU: self-effecting legislative act",
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      "word": "förordning"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "mechanism controlling DNA transcription",
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "mechanism controlling DNA transcription",
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "mechanism controlling DNA transcription",
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "mechanism controlling DNA transcription",
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "physiological process maintaining homœostasis",
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "physiological process maintaining homœostasis",
      "word": "regolazione"
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      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "physiological process maintaining homœostasis",
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "physiological process maintaining homœostasis",
      "word": "regulação"
    },
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "physiological process maintaining homœostasis",
      "word": "regulación"
    }
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  ],
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}

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          "text": "It is regulation that these directives are to be destroyed on receipt.",
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          "ref": "2004, Marc Miller, The Kettles and the Keeps: Ghosts at War, page 88",
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